Death and Mr. Pickwick Death and Mr. Pickwick

Death and Mr. Pickwick

A Novel

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Publisher Description

Death and Mr. Pickwick is a vast, richly imagined, Dickensian work about the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age. Like Charles Dickens did in his immortal novels, Stephen Jarvis has spun a tale full of preposterous characters, shaggy-dog stories, improbable reversals, skulduggery, betrayal, and valor-all true, and all brilliantly brought to life in his unputdownable book.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, featuring the fat and lovable Mr. Pickwick and his Cockney manservant, Sam Weller, began as a series of whimsical sketches, the brainchild of the brilliant, erratic, misanthropic illustrator named Robert Seymour, a denizen of the back alleys and grimy courtyards where early nineteenth-century London's printers and booksellers plied their cutthroat trade. When Seymour's publishers, after trying to match his magical etchings with a number of writers, settled on a young storyteller using the pen name Boz, The Pickwick Papers went on to become a worldwide phenomenon, outselling every other book besides the Bible and Shakespeare's plays. And Boz, as the young Charles Dickens signed his work, became, in the eyes of many, the most important writer of his time. The fate of Robert Seymour, Mr. Pickwick's creator, a very different story-one untold before now.

Few novels deserve to be called magnificent. Death and Mr. Pickwick is one of them.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2015
June 23
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
816
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
2.8
MB

Customer Reviews

juliusa ,

And The Point Is?

I will agree this is a fun romp through triviality and historical events and characters, pointing out the nonsense that led to the possibility of Dickens as a writer and how he may have stolen ideas.... But other than that it's a slog to get through, with no depth or characterization to care about. Finished it wondering why I bothered. No point to it, and many hours wasted.

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