Pickwick Papers

3.84 (25,909 ratings by Goodreads)
Regular price €19.99
19th century
A01=Charles Dickens
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Charles Dickens
automatic-update
beach reading pick
book club selection
British comedy manners
Category1=Fiction
Category=FBC
Category=FC
classic
clothbound
collector's edition
comedic fiction classic
comic misadventures
COP=United Kingdom
cozy reading season
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
deluxe
English countryside journey
English social comedy
eq_bestseller
eq_classics
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
gentleman's travel adventures
gentlemen's club adventure
gift
historical comedy novel
humor
humorous social commentary
illustrated collector's edition
illustrated literary collection
Language_English
PA=Available
period comedy masterwork
picaresque
Pickwick Club
pre-Victorian era humor
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
reform era tales
Sam Weller
serialized Victorian fiction
social reform narrative
social reform storytelling
softlaunch
unabridged
Victorian
vintage illustrated fiction

Product details

  • ISBN 9781509825455
  • Weight: 514g
  • Dimensions: 105 x 159mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Sep 2016
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

In The Pickwick Papers we are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language, but to some of fiction's most endearing and memorable characters, starting with the 'illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded' Samuel Pickwick himself. It is a rollicking tour de force through an England on the brink of the Victorian era. Reform of government, justice and commercial life are imminent, as are rail travel, social convulsion and the death of deference, but Pickwick sails through on a tide of delirious adventure, fortifying us for the future - whatever it might throw at us.

This Macmillan Collector's Library edition is illustrated by H. K. Browne ('Phiz'), with an afterword by Ned Halley.

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth, where his father worked as a clerk. Living in London in 1824, Dickens was sent by his family to work in a blacking-warehouse, and his father was arrested and imprisoned for debt. Fortunes improved and Dickens returned to school, eventually becoming a parliamentary reporter. His first piece of fiction was published by a magazine in December 1832, and by 1836 he had begun his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He focused his career on writing, completing fourteen highly successful novels including Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and Bleak House, as well as penning journalism, shorter fiction and travel books. He died in 1870.