Death and Mr. Pickwick: a novel
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"On March 31, 1836, the publishers Chapman & Hall launched the first issue of a new monthly periodical entitled The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Conceived and created by the artist Robert Seymour, it contained four of his illustrations; the words to accompany them were written by a young journalist who used the pen name Boz. The story of a club presided over by fat, loveable Mr. Pickwick, assisted by his cockney manservant Sam Weller, The Pickwick Papers soon became a sensation, outselling every other book except the Bible and Shakespeare's plays, read and discussed by the entire population of the British Isles, from the duke's drawing room to the lowliest chophouse. The fame of Mr. Pickwick soon spread worldwide--making The Pickwick Papers the greatest literary phenomenon in history. But one does not need to have read a single word of The Pickwick Papers to be enthralled by the story of how this extraordinary novel came to be. The creation and afterlife of this masterpiece is the subject of Stephen Jarvis's novel, Death and Mr. Pickwick. This vast, intricately constructed, indeed Dickensian work is at once the ultimate homage to a much-loved book, tracing its genesis and subsequent history in fascinating detail, and a damning indictment of how an ambitious young writer expropriated another man's ideas and then engaged in an elaborate cover-up of The Pickwick Papers' true origin."--
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Authors, English
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Fiction
Biographical fiction
Characters
Dickens, Charles
Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Characters -- Fiction
Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870. -- Pickwick papers -- Fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
Literature
Seymour, Robert
Seymour, Robert, -- 1798-1836 -- Fiction
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Fiction
Biographical fiction
Characters
Dickens, Charles
Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Characters -- Fiction
Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870. -- Pickwick papers -- Fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
Literature
Seymour, Robert
Seymour, Robert, -- 1798-1836 -- Fiction
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9780374139667
9780374712648
9780374712648
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Grouping Title | death and mr pickwick |
Grouping Author | stephen jarvis |
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Novelist Primary ISBN | 9780374139667 |
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subject_facet | Authors, English -- 19th century -- Fiction Biographical fiction Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Characters -- Fiction Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870. -- Pickwick papers -- Fiction Historical fiction Seymour, Robert, -- 1798-1836 -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Death and Mr. Pickwick : a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Death and Mr. Pickwick : a novel / Stephen Jarvis Death and Mr. Pickwick A Novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Death and Mr. Pickwick | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Authors, English Characters Dickens, Charles Fiction Historical Fiction Literature Seymour, Robert |