Name: The Pickwick Papers (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
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Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781774765777

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The Pickwick Papers (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dickens

Publisher

Royal Classics

Language

English

Pages

752

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 4.6 cm

Weight

1.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781774765777

Synopsis "The Pickwick Papers (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)"

Samuel Pickwick, Esquire is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. He suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" should make journeys to places remote from London and report on their findings to the other members of the club. Their travels throughout the English countryside by coach provide the chief subject matter of the novel. A romantic misunderstanding with his landlady, the widow Mrs Bardell, results in one of the most famous legal cases in English literature.The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens' first novel, and became Britain's first real publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, joke books, and other merchandise. On its cultural impact, Nicholas Dames in The Atlantic wrote, "'Literature" is not a big enough category for Pickwick. It defined its own, a new one that we have learned to call "entertainment.'" Published in 19 issues over 20 months, the success of The Pickwick Papers popularised serialised fiction and cliffhanger endings.This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was born in Portsmouth and was the eldest son of a Royal Navy clerk. At twelve, his father's imprisonment for debt forced him to work in a blacking factory. His education was sporadic: he taught himself shorthand, worked as a clerk in a law office, and eventually became a parliamentary correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.

Coming from a humble family, "good old Charles" did not receive formal education until he was nine, and was heavily criticized by the critics of the time for being too self-taught. His life took an unexpected turn with his father's imprisonment for debts, moving his family to live with him in jail, allowed at that time by British laws. At the age of 12, he was already considered fit to start working in a dye factory. Although his family's situation had improved, his mother insisted he keep working there, inspiring him to write one of his masterpieces, David Copperfield.

His articles, later collected in Scenes from London Life by "Boz" (1836-1837), were very successful, and with the appearance in 1837 of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens became a true publishing phenomenon. Novels such as Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), and Barnaby Rudge (1841) gained enormous popularity, as did some travel chronicles, such as Pictures from Italy (1846). With Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he began his mature period, of which good examples are David Copperfield (1849-1850), his first novel in the first person and his favorite, in which he developed some autobiographical episodes; Bleak House (1852-1853); Little Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). He died at Gad's Hill, his country house in Higham, in the county of Kent.

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