The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
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800 pages · Released 1999 · Penguin Books
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Pickwick Papers is a humorous picaresque novel centered on friendship, adventure, and social observation in Regency England. The story is fundamentally gentle and optimistic, celebrating loyalty and kindness, though it includes a few brief scuffles and period-typical drinking scenes. This is classic literature suitable for older middle-grade to young adult readers with patience for Dickens' leisurely Victorian prose and social satire.
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Dickens’ first novel was originally written and published as a serial. It is a comedy relating the misadventures of the members of The Pickwick Club, whose main purpose is to discover and relate quaint and curious phenomena of social life and customs throughout England. This quest takes the members to all parts of the... Dickens’ first novel was originally written and published as a serial. It is a comedy relating the misadventures of the members of The Pickwick Club, whose main purpose is to discover and relate quaint and curious phenomena of social life and customs throughout England. This quest takes the members to all parts of the country, travelling by coach and sampling the comforts or otherwise of various coaching inns.
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ISBN 9780140436112 · Penguin Books