Physical description

The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club.
Author: Charles Dickens.
Publisher: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, London.
Date: 1910-1912. (See note section this document for more information on Edition).
Brown leather hardcover with title and a design on spine in gold lettering, Front has round publishers logo in gold embossing. The spine has a Library label and no Volume information.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine cover with typed text PAT 823 DIC
Paste down front end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service.
Front loose end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service.
Inside the front loose end paper is written "to Bill from Cyril 6.1.27"

Summary

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was one of the great English novelists of the Victorian era, famous for vivid characters, social criticism, and stories that were first published in serial form. He began as a journalist, rose to enormous popularity during his lifetime, and wrote major works such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.
The “Pickwick Papers” is a comic novel about Samuel Pickwick and the members of his club as they travel around England, recording amusing adventures, misunderstandings, lawsuits, and mishaps.The theme gradually becomes a story about friendship, folly, and social life in early Victorian England. It is significant because it was Dickens’s first novel that helped establish his reputation, and is widely praised for its lively characters, satire, and its strong focus on the absurdities of the legal system.