Summary
An extraordinary novel about an extraordinary novel - Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick PapersShortlisted for the HWA Goldsboro Debut CrownIt is 31 March 1836. A new monthly periodical is launched entitled The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Conceived and created by the artist Robert Seymour, it contains four of his illustrations. The words to accompany them are written by a young journalist, under the pen-name Boz. The journalist’s real name is Charles Dickens.The Pickwick Papers soon be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099593485 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099593483 |
| Author: | Stephen Jarvis |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 816 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 562g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 34mm |
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Critics Review
An outstanding debut novel.
An outstanding debut novel. – Peter Kemp * Sunday Times *
This is a masterpiece of imagination supported by a mountain of research. – Christian House, 4 stars * Sunday Telegraph *
This is a masterpiece of imagination supported by a mountain of research. – Christian House, 4 stars * Sunday Telegraph *
A novel as crowded, rude and brilliantly inventive as the great pre-Dickensian caricatures it celebrates. – Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Observer *
Some may view this book as a remarkable piece of literary detection, others a dazzlingly written and superbly imagined exposition on how art and writing are gestated and born. Or both. * Daily Mail *
Astpnishing – David Sexton * Evening Standard *
It offers a readers experience as immersive as Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, and as visionary in its capacity to connect us with past lives. – Lucasta Miller * Independent *
A huge and hugely impressive first novel for both fans of immersive reads and of Dickens’ London. – Joanne Wilkinson * Booklist *
An impressive debut. – Frances Wilson * New Statesman *
In this astounding first novel, Jarvis re-creates, in loving and exhaustive detail, the writing and publication of Charles Dickens’s first novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club…it is a staggering accomplishment, a panoramic perspective of nineteenth-century London and its creative class. – Publishers Weekly starred review
About The Author
Stephen Jarvis
Stephen Jarvis was born in Essex. Death and Mr Pickwick is his first novel.
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