The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens, Cornerstone Classic Ebooks (Editor)

Overview

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is Charles Dickens's first novel. To extend his researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of life, Pickwick suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" (Mr Nathaniel Winkle, Mr Augustus Snodgrass, and Mr Tracy Tupman) should make journeys to places remote from London and report on their findings to the other members of the club. Their travels throughout the English countryside by coach provide the chief theme of the novel. A distinctive and valuable feature of the work is the generally accurate description of the old coaching inns of England.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148171218
Publisher:	Cornerstone Classic Ebooks
Publication date:	02/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	862 KB

About the Author

Charles John Huffam Dickens; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870, was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington