The Pickwick Papers began as a literary spoof centred around sketches of stock sporting fops by caricaturist Robert Seymour. Following the success of Sketches by Boz , Dickens was recruited to compose the words which would accompany the illustrations. Dickens quickly made the project his own and created some of his most popular characters: Samuel Pickwick, and his companions Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman. At the height of its popularity The Pickwick Papers sold 40,000 copies a month and catapulted the 24 year old Dickens to fame.
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- ISBN
9780140436112
- Published
- February 24th 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd
- Category
- General
- Number of pages
- 848
- County of origin
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129
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