The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club.

952 pages

English language

Published June 3, 1972 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-043078-3
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel. He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836 (most of Dickens' novels were issued in shilling instalments before being published as complete volumes). Dickens (still writing under the pseudonym of Boz) increasingly took over the unsuccessful monthly publication after the original illustrator Robert Seymour had committed suicide.

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It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art.

Charles Dickens debuteerde in 1836 op 24-jarige leeftijd met The Pickwick papers, een schelmenroman over de avonturen van de heer Pickwick en diens vrienden, de Pickwickclub. Oorspronkelijk werden de avonturen in een reeks van afzonderlijke verhalen gepubliceerd, die destijds tot groot vermaak en de doorbraak van de jonge Dickens leidden.Helaas deden de verhaaltjes mij weinig. Ze geven in zekere zin een geestig beeld van de Engelse samenleving aan het begin van de negentiende eeuw, maar hebben weinig om het lijf. Het taalgebruik van Dickens is onmogelijk en ik vermoed dat veel referenties uit die tijd me …

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Subjects

  • Men -- Societies and clubs -- Fiction.
  • Male friendship -- Fiction.
  • England -- Fiction.