Death and Mr Pickwick
Jarvis, Stephen, 1958-2014
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The story of a sporting-cum-drinking club presided over by fat, loveable Mr Pickwick, and assisted by his cockney manservant Sam Weller, 'The Pickwick Papers' soon became a popular sensation, outselling every other book except the Bible and Shakespeare's plays. The creation and afterlife of the story is the subject of Stephen Jarvis's novel, 'Death and Mr Pickwick.' This vast, Dickensian work is, at once, a homage to a much-loved book, tracing its genesis and subsequent history in fascinating detail, and a damning indictment of how an ambitious young writer expropriated another man's ideas and then engaged in an elaborate cover-up of its true origin.
Main title:
Death and Mr Pickwick / Stephen Jarvis.
Author:
Jarvis, Stephen, 1958-, author
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, [2014]©2014
Collation:
801 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Illustrations on lining papers.
ISBN:
9780224099660 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92H
LC class:
PR6110.A785
Local class:
FICF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
712864
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