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 …
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 …
Pickwick' burst from his followers, that illustrious man slowly mounted into the Windsor chair, on which he had been previously seated, and addressed the club him self had founded. What a …
Charles Dickens, Preface to the first Cheap Edition of Pickwick Papers, reprinted in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, edited by Robert L. Patten, 1972 p. 45
The Pickwick Papers was completed in 1837, and a dinner was given to celebrate the event, at which Dickens himself presided and his friend, Serjeant T. N. Talfourd, to whom the book was …
From 1836 until 1936, the novel's intoxicating high spirits inebriated many critics into mere bubbly enthusiasm, while interest in the novel's origins and its effect on Dickens's career directed …
Written for publication as a serial, The Pickwick Papers consists of a sequence of loosely−related adventures. Its main literary value and appeal is formed by its numerous unforgettable heroes.