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    The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Collector's Library) (Hardback) By (author) Charles Dickens, Illustrated by R. W. Buss, Illustrated by "Phiz", Afterword by Ned Halley

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    Short Description for The Pickwick Papers Featuring the 'illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded' Samuel Pickwick, this title takes you through an England on the brink of the Victorian era. Reform of government, justice and commercial life are imminent, as are rail travel, social convulsion and the death of deference, but Pickwick sails through on a tide of delirious adventure.
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    Title
    The Pickwick Papers
    Subtitle
    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Charles Dickens, Illustrated by R. W. Buss, Illustrated by "Phiz", Afterword by Ned Halley
    Physical properties
    Format: Hardback
    Number of pages: 1244
    Width: 93 mm
    Height: 150 mm
    Thickness: 48 mm
    Weight: 522 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781907360282
    ISBN 10: 190736028X
    Classifications
    Dewey: 823/.8
    BISAC category code: FIC004000
    BISAC category code: FIC019000
    Dewey: FIC
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: F1.1
    BISAC category code: HIS000000
    Dewey: 823.8
    Edition
    Unabridged
    Edition statement
    Unabridged
    Illustrations note
    illustrations
    Publisher
    CRW Publishing Limited
    Imprint name
    Collector's Library
    Publication date
    01 September 2011
    Publication City/Country
    Cirencester/GB
    Main description
    The Pickwick Papers is Charles Dickens's first novel, and his comic masterpiece. We are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language but to some of fiction's most endearing and memorable characters, starting with the "illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded" Samuel Pickwick himself. It is a rollicking tour de force through an England on the brink of the Victorian era. Reform of government, justice, and commercial life are imminent, as are rail travel, social convulsion, and the death of deference, but Pickwick sails through on a tide of delirious adventure, fortifying us for the future-whatever it throws at us.
    Biographical note
    Charles Dickens was twenty-five when The Pickwick Papers, his first novel, was published in 1836. Appearing just a few weeks after his first book, a pseudonymous collection of his journalism, Sketches by Boz, the novel, made his name. After a childhood blighted by the fecklessness of a father who later inspired the figure of Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield, Dickens went on to become the giant of nineteenth-century literature, the father of ten children in an unhappy marriage, and the lens through which millions of readers have viewed, and continue to view, the most convulsive and formative years in British social history-the Victorian era.