The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens, Mark Wormald, Mark Wormald , Mark Wormald

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Penguin Classics
12 April 2000

The Comic masterpiece that catapulted the 24 year old Dickens to fame

THE PICKWICK PAPERS began as a literary spoof centred around sketches of stock sporting fops by caricaturist Robert Seymour.

Following the success of SKETCHES BY BOZ, Dickens was recruited to compose the words which would accompany the illustrations. Dickens quickly made the project his own and created some of his most popular characters- Samuel Pickwick, and his companions Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman. At the height of its popularity THE PICKWICK PAPERS sold 40,000 copies a month and catapulted the 24 year old Dickens to fame.

By: Charles Dickens
Notes by: Mark Wormald
Introduction by: Mark Wormald
Edited by: Mark Wormald
Other: Stephen Wall
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 575g
ISBN: 9780140436112
ISBN 10: 0140436111
Pages: 848
Publication Date: 12 April 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful PICKWICK PAPERS (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. Dickens is considered one of the greatest novelists in the English language. Mark Wormald is a Fellow and College Lecturer in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Reviews for The Pickwick Papers

No essay in fiction ever gave more incontestable assurance of genius. . . . Never, perhaps, was satire so large-hearted and so entertaining. -George Gissing