The Pickwick Papers
$33.93
- Paperback
816 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2003
Summary
Charles Dickens’s satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836-37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief. Laugh-out-loud funny and endlessly entertaining, the book also reveals Dickens’s burgeoning interest in the parliamentary system, lawyers, the Poor Laws, and the ills of debtors’ prisons. As G. K. Ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812967272 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812967275 |
| Author: | Charles Dickens, Richard Russo |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 816 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2003 |
| Weight: | 634g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm x 46mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“No essay in fiction ever gave more incontestable assurance of genius… . Never, perhaps, was satire so large-hearted and so entertaining.”-George Gissing
“No essay in fiction ever gave more incontestable assurance of genius… . Never, perhaps, was satire so large-hearted and so entertaining.”—George Gissing
About The Author
Charles Dickens
Richard Russo is the author of Empire Falls, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody’s Fool, and Straight Man. He lives in coastal Maine with his wife and their two daughters.
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