THE PICKWICK PAPERS

Rising rage and extreme bewilderment had swelled the noble breast of Mr Pickwick, almost to the bursting of his waistcoatFew first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-ol d author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle and, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, and his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed t urf of Dingl...[Llegir més]