The Pickwick Papers Hardcover - 1888

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (commonly known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel published by Charles Dickens. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club catapulted the 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr. Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtor’s prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humor & literary invention

The novel was published in 19 issues over 20 months by Chapman and Hall, London in 1836. 

After the publication the widow of illustrator Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally her husband's; however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that "Mr. Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book.

Details

• Title The Pickwick Papers
• Author Charles Dickens; Introduction by Bernard Darwin
• Binding Hardcover
• Edition Reprint
• Pages 826
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, London, Paternoster Square
• Date n.d. [1888]
• ISBN 9780192545015 / 0192545019
• Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
• Dimensions 7.4 x 5.2 x 2 in (18.80 x 13.21 x 5.08 cm)
• Reading level 1160
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC