The Pickwick Papers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812967272)

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."

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 0812967275
ISBN-13: 9780812967272
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)
Language: English
Published: 08/12/2003
Pages: 779
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 8.09h x 5.23w x 1.37d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 11.8
Point Value: 60
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10044 / Pickwick Papers/The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club