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The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers

by Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

BookID: 580

Language:English

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 71.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Humorous storiesEngland -- FictionMen -- Societies and clubs -- FictionMale friendship -- Fiction

Description

"The Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens is a novel serialized from March 1836 to November 1837. It follows the kindly gentleman Samuel Pickwick and three companions as they journey through the English countryside, reporting their adventures to their club. Their travels lead to comic misadventures, colorful characters like the clever servant Sam Weller and the charlatan Alfred Jingle, and an infamous legal case that lands Pickwick in debtors' prison. This publishing phenomenon popularized serialized fiction and defined modern entertainment. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

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