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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Vol 1 of 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Charles Dickens Not many things in literary history are better known than the origin of Pickwick. Charles Dickens, at the age of twenty-four, had written nothing worth mentioning for publication, except the set of papers, mainly contributed to the Evening Chronicle, called Sketches by Boz. Meanwhile, Messrs. Chapman and Hall had been in communication, through M... more »r. Charles Whitehead, with Dickens, whom they wished to secure as a contributor to a "library of Fiction." They had also dealings with Mr. Seymour, an artist whose forte was the designing of " cockney sporting plates." Such things were then popular, and may still be seen on the walls of smoking-rooms in country houses. The vein probably worked itself out in Leeches Mr. Jorrocks and Mr. Briggs. Seymour wanted to go on drawing this sort of caricature; Mr. Chapman wanted it to be accompanied by letter-press, and his partner, Mr-Hall, conveyed this desire to Dickens. There was to be "a monthly something? containing the advent
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