The Pickwick Papers

by Dickens, Charles (Author); Wormald, Mark (Editor/introduction)

• ISBN13: 9780140436112
• ISBN10: 0140436111
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

Charles Dickens's satirical masterpiece, "The Pickwick Papers," catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836-37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief. Laugh-out-loud funny and endlessly entertaining, the book also reveals Dickens's burgeoning interest in the parliamentary system, lawyers, the Poor Laws, and the ills of debtors' prisons. As G. K. Chesterton noted, "Before ÝDickens¨ wrote a single real story, he had a kind of vision . . . a map full of fantastic towns, thundering coaches, clamorous market-places, uproarious inns, strange and swaggering figures. That vision was Pickwick." "From the Trade Paperback edition."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi
Introduction	vii
Mark Wormald
A Dickens Chronology	xxiv
Stephen Wall
A Note on the Text and Illustrations	xxvii
Further Reading	xxxiii
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club	1	(754)
Appendix A: Addresses to the Reader, 1836--7	755	(5)
Appendix B: Preface to the Cheap Edition, 1847	760	(7)
Preface to the Charles Dickens Edition, 1867	763	(4)
Appendix C: Maps	767	(7)
Appendix D: Seymour's Cover-design	774	(2)
Notes	776