Book description
'The fat boy rose, opened his eyes, swallowed the huge piece of pie
he had been in the act of masticating when he last fell asleep, and
slowly obeyed his master's orders'
Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The
Pickwick Papers. Readers were immediately 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
turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the
Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtor's prison, characters and
incidents sprang to life from Dickens's pen, to form an enduringly
popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in
English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the
beginning of the First World War.
