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Dickens's first novel - with its creative use of the old tradition of graphic satire - is an episodic series of adventures featuring the noble Mr Pickwick and a range of characters such as Jingle, Sam Weller and various other members of the Pickwick Club.

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The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, is derived from the perusal of the following entry in the Transactions of the Pickwick Club, which the editor of these papers feels the highest pleasure in laying before his readers, as a proof of the careful attention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination, with which his search among the multifarious documents confided to him has been conducted.

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Introduction
Chapter One - Fifty Seven
Characters

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This is book 106 of 196 in BBC 'Big Read' Top 200 Novels, 2003. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Point Blank, and followed by Stormbreaker.

This book is in Penguin's Top 100 Classics. (authoritative list)
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This is book 76 of 91 in The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time, 2004. (authoritative list)

Followed by Robinson Crusoe.

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  1. Charles Dickens (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Country: England
Publication Date: 1837
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 804

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  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Great Expectations
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Nicholas Nickleby
  • The Old Curiosity Shop
  • David Copperfield
  • Bleak House
  • Little Dorrit
  • Oliver Twist
  • The Pickwick Papers

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