The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens · 1847
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About the book
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.
First sentence: 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 pro
Book details
- Year
- 1847
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Wildside Press
- Editions
- 289
- Reader rating
- 3.2 / 5 (6)
- Pages
- 596
- ISBN
- 9780809594603
Data source: Wikidata
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