The Pickwick Papers

Description

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 proof of the careful attention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination, with which his search among the multifarious documents confided to him has been conducted.

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Other Editions

• The Pickwick PaperspaperbackCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform2017-06-23
• The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club.James Turney, Jr.1838-01-01
• The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club ...Chapman & Hall1874-01-01
• The posthumous papers of the Pickwick ClubChapman and Hall1910-01-01
• The Pickwick PapersLibrary BindingTandem Library1999-10-01
• Pickwick PapersKessinger Publishing, LLC2004-01-01