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Books : The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)In association with Amazon.comby: Charles Dickens  List Price: $12.00 Amazon.com's Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 823.8 EAN: 9780140436112 ISBN: 0140436111 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 848 Publication Date: August 01, 2000 Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: August 01, 2000 Studio: Penguin Classics Sales Rank: 189261 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The Pickwick Papers explores the perils, travels, and adventures of the Pickwick Club's members: the founding chairman, former businessman and amateur scientist Mr. Pickwick; his trusted companion Sam Weller; the sportsman Winkle; the poet Snodgrass; and the lover Tracy Tupman. This Penguin Classic makes available the first volume edition of 1837 together with the original illustrations. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Put this one in the pantheonThis book proves that you don't need organization, theme, or even a plot to write one of the great books of English literature when you're one of the greatest novelists the world has ever known. There are many excellent reasons to read this book, chief among them the fact that even if you only read a few chapters you'll get more pleasure, humor, and great writing than if you read hundreds of pages from other authors. The Pickwick Papers starts out as if the story comes from records taken ... Read More Rating: - Enjoy the humor, skim the longer story asidesNot quite as good as Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics), still a classic. Mr. Pickwick is the titular head of the Pickwick Club, who run around England getting into various humorous adventures, most involving women, and most of those involving widows. Apparently at that time and place widows were considered avaricious vultures (or "wultures" as Sam Weller would say) ready to latch on to any available man with money. This might say more about the life expectancy of women in their ... Read More Rating: - AmazingHow could Dickens have written this book--so wise, balanced, informed, witty, tender, loving, and intelligent--at such a young age? I'm glad to have finally gotten around to reading it. Rating:  - I liked itPP is a joy; in that it was written when CJHD was 24, it is also a wonder. I don't have much to add that has not been said. One sees the author grow as a writer as the book develops; by the end he is in top form. The plotting is thin, and the chapters episodic, while the details are vivid, and the language rich. By the end, the reader feels at home in early Victorian England. I enjoyed the spectrum of characters. The bad ones are able to be polished a little, and develop redeeming quality. The good ... Read More Rating: - Dickens' MagicA friend of mine said that she loved the Harry Potter books because they returned her, as an adult, to the mesmerized delight in reading that she felt as a child. That's what The Pickwick Papers did for me. Think of it as a sort of prose nineteenth century Decameron or Canterbury Tales. A group of friends, which make up the Pickwick Society, go traveling the English countryside. Along the way, they experience many adventures, and these adventures are punctuated by the telling of tales, sometimes ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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