The Pickwick Papers

副标题: Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

ISBN: 9780812967272

出版社: Random House Inc

出版年: 2003-8

页数: 779

定价: 103.00元

装帧: Pap

内容简介

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.”