The Pickwick Papers (Everyman's Library)
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired businessman and confirmed batchelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Founder of the Pickwick Club, he and his fellow Pickwickians elect to form a Corresponding...
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired businessman and confirmed batchelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Founder of the Pickwick Club, he and his fellow Pickwickians elect to form a Corresponding Society and report back their journeys and exploits on a regular basis. Thus begins the chronicle of their hilariously comic adventures.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780375405488 (0375405488)
Publish date: March 2nd 1999
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Pages no: 976
Edition language: English
I remember an attempt at reading Pickwick very early on, possibly in my teens. It did not end well: I was not a sufficiently experienced reader to navigate either the playfulness of Dickens' language or the tone of gleeful grotesquerie masking a rather sentimental view of human nature. Let me qualif...
Thank God this is over! I had previously read six books by Dickens and I loved them all. I even gave 5*s to one or two. This one, however, was a painful read. I think part of the problem might have been my own current personal issues. Rather a lot of heavy stuff has been going on recently and I have...
bookshelves: winter20092010, victorian, published-1837, classic, britain-england, amusing, fraudio, play-dramatisation, satire Read in December, 2009 It's 1827 - Samuel Pickwick and his club members set off to travel across England.Stars Simon Cadell and Freddie Jones Broadcast on BBC Radio 7Thi...
It had some good parts and some great parts, but it was soooo looong!
Dicken’s first novel was published in 19 serial installments from March, 1836 through October, 1837. It was wildly popular, and in many ways transformed serial publishing in England from a type of fiction in which the picture plates took priority, to fiction where the narrative gained precedence.The...
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