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The Pickwick papers / Charles Dickens.

by Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

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Penguin Books, 1999.

Men -- Societies and clubs -- Fiction.

England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.

9780199536245 (2008 Oxford University Press trade pbk.)

0553211234 (1983 Bantam pbk.)

0749307536 (1991 Mandarin pbk.)

1856260525 (1993 Wordsworth Classics trade pbk.)

9780375405488 (1998 Everyman's Library hardcover)

9780140436112 (1999 Penguin Classics trade pbk.)

0140436111 (1999 Penguin Classics trade pbk.)

9780307291752 (2009 Premier Classics trade pbk.)

Pickwick papers

Alternate title:

Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

1 v. (various pagings).

First published in 1837.

[This record reflects various editions with several different introductions by various people].

1907 Dent/Everyman's Library edition has an introduction by G.K. Chesterton.

1944 Dodd Mead edition includes a forward by May Lamberton Becker and illustrations by Phiz and others.

1991 Mandarin paperback edition includes 43 illustrations by Phiz.

1998 Everyman's Library hardcover is introduced by Peter Washington with 43 illustrations by Seymour and 'Phiz'.

1999 Penguin Classics trade paperback is edited with an introduction and notes by Mark Wormald.

Includes bibliographical references.

"The Pickwick Papers was Dickens's response to his publisher's request for a monthly series of sporting sketches. It became the most famous of all pre-Victorian novels. The central characters, Mr Pickwick and Sam Weller, are as familiar today as they became on publication, and there are over a hundred other speaking parts. The action is set in the late Georgian period of the writer's earliest youth, drawing on experience and acute observation ranging from the unreformed election at Eatanswill to the horrors of the debtors' prison. Brilliantly comic, it also exposes social and especially legal abuses, as in the notorious trial of Bardell v. Pickwick. Dickens's satire is both topical and timeless."--Oxford University Press.

Humorous fiction.

Historical fiction.

Classic fiction.

Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.

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