Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849642879
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Book Synopsis The Pickwick Papers by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Pickwick Papers written by Charles Dickens and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club' is the one novel of Dickens that abounds neither in pathetic, grewsome, nor dramatic passages. It is pure fun from beginning to end, with a laugh on every page. It was published in 1836, and aided by the clever illustrations of Hablot Brown, or "Phiz," it attained immediate success and laid the foundations of Dickens's fame. The types illustrated are caricatures, but nevertheless they are types: Mr. Pickwick, the genial, unsophisticated founder of the club; and that masterly array of ludicrous individuals drawn from all classes high and low. Although the whole book is exaggerated comedy, there is no other that has furnished more characters universally known, or given to common English speech more current phrases. Many sayings and events are still in the "Pickwickian sense"; Sam Weller and his admirable father are still quoted; Mrs. Leo Hunter is still a feature in social life; Bardell trials occur occasionally; and there are many clubs as wise as Pickwick's.