By Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens's satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the younger author into literary popularity whilst it used to be first serialized in 1836-37.
It recounts the rollicking adventures of the individuals of the Pickwick membership as they commute approximately England moving into every type of mischief. Laugh-out-loud humorous and eternally interesting, the publication additionally unearths Dickens's burgeoning curiosity within the parliamentary approach, legal professionals, the terrible legislation, and the ills of debtors' prisons.
As G. ok. Chesterton famous, "Before [Dickens] wrote a unmarried actual tale, he had one of those imaginative and prescient ... a map filled with incredible cities, thundering coaches, clamorous market-places, uproarious lodges, unusual and swaggering figures. That imaginative and prescient used to be Pickwick."
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I would also like to thank Dan Franklin, Pascal Cariss and Jason Arthur at Jonathan Cape. Pieces in this book were compiled by Professor James Diedrick. I gratefully salute his skill and acuity. R. Leavis and Lionel Trilling, and on lesser figures like Ian Robinson and Denis Donoghue). 'Literature and society' was, at one time, a phrase so much on everyone's lips that it earned itself an abbreviation: Lit & Soc. And Lit & Soc, I seemed to remember, had been for me a long-running enthusiasm. But when I leafed through the massed manuscripts I found only a handful of essays, all of them written, rather ominously, in the early Seventies (when I was in my early twenties).
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