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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (2 Volumes) (Publisher series: Charles Dickens Complete Works; Identified on cover as: Pickwick Papers.)
by Dickens, Charles (Illustrations by Phiz; Seymour.)
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- Hardcover
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: Heron Books [no date], Centennial edition. (Hardcover set) 484, 477pp. Very good. Issued without dust jacket. Gilt decorated green leatherette. Ribbon markers, decorated endpapers, frontispiece, illustrations. Illustrations by Phiz & Seymour. Publisher series: Charles Dickens Complete Works. Introduction by Bernard Darwin. Identified on cover as: Pickwick Papers. (Fiction).
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 108874
- Title
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (2 Volumes) (Publisher series: Charles Dickens Complete Works; Identified on cover as: Pickwick Papers.)
- Author
- Dickens, Charles (Illustrations by Phiz; Seymour.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Heron Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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