The Pickwick Papers
Автор:
Charles DickensЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2024-10-24Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
293
Description
In The Pickwick Papers, the wealthy and amiable Mr. Pickwick and his friends—calling themselves the “Pickwick Club”—wander around England out of curiosity and an interest in human nature. On the way, they have many loosely-related comic adventures. Mr. Pickwick eventually employs a cockney man-servant, Sam Weller, whose fractured language and forthright attitude adds a great deal of amusement. Late in the book, a continuing story relates to a prosecution of Mr. Pickwick for breach of promise by his erstwhile landlady.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, to give it its original title, was Dickens’ first novel. He had previously achieved a...
