The Pickwick Papers

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Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers-a comic masterpiece that catapulted its 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle&, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick,& his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtor's prison, characters& incidents sprang to life from Dickens's pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour& literary invention

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