The Pickwick Papers

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 Dickens] 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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 08/12/2003
ISBN: 9780812967272
Pages: 779
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 8.09h x 5.23w x 1.37d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 10044 / Pickwick Papers/The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Reading Level: 11.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 60