The Pickwick Papers (Everyman's Library) [Idioma Inglés]: Introduction by Peter Washington (Everyman's Library Classics Series) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

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ISBN 10: 0375405488 ISBN 13: 9780375405488

Verlag: Everyman's Library, 1999

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"No essay in fiction ever gave more incontestable assurance of genius. . . . Never, perhaps, was satire so large-hearted and so entertaining."--George Gissing

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In this classic social commentary from Dickens, Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, the portly innocent embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. But can Pickwick retain his good will towards his fellow humans once he discovers the evils of the world?

Charles Dickens’s satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836–37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief.

Laugh-out-loud funny and endlessly entertaining, the book also reveals Dickens’s burgeoning interest in the parliamentary system, lawyers, the Poor Laws, and the ills of debtors’ prisons.

As G. K. Chesterton noted, “Before [Dickens] wrote a single real story, he had a kind of vision . . . a map full of fantastic towns, thundering coaches, clamorous market-places, uproarious inns, strange and swaggering figures. That vision was Pickwick.”

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. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Everyman's Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375405488
• ISBN 13: 9780375405488
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 976