num_pages: 801
description: 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 &amp;, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, &amp; 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 &amp; incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour &amp; literary invention.
language: English
title: The Pickwick Papers
titlecomplete: The Pickwick Papers
characters: Tracy Tupman, Rachael Wardle, Sam Weller, Tony Weller, Alfred Jingle, Mr. Wardle, Benjamin Allen, Emily Wardle, Nathaniel Winkle, Mr. Perker, Samuel Pickwick, Mrs. Bardell, Mr. Fogg, Bob Sawyer, Arabella Allen, Mr. Dodson, Augustus Snodgrass, Job Trotter, Solomon Pell, Dr. Slammer
genres: Classics, British Literature, Humor, Novels, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 29007
publisher: Penguin Classics