Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, no. 18

Tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman, president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, and romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work. Issued monthly from April 1836 to November 1837. Chapters 49-51: Chapter 49. How Mr. Pickwick sped upon his mission, and how he was reinforced in the outset by a most unexpected auxiliary Chapter 50. In which Mr. Pickwick encounters an old acquaintance, to which fortunate circumstance the reader is mainly indebted for matter of thrilling interest herein set down, concerning two great public men of might and power Chapter 51. Involving a serious change in the Weller family, and the untimely downfall of the red-nosed Mr. Stiggins

In Collection:

• Victorian Serial Novels Collection

Creator

• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Contributor

• Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836
• Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882

Subject

• Men--Societies and clubs
• Manners and customs

Publisher

• London : Chapman and Hall

Language

• eng

Identifier

• Call Number: PR4569 A1 1836

Date created

• 1836 to 1937

Relation

•  https://search.library.uvic.ca/permalink/01VIC_INST/71bv5b/alma993944523807291

Resource type

• Text

Source

• University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections, PR4569 A1 1836

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 20 numbers in 19 volumes (xiv, 609 pages) ; 23 cm

Geographic coverage

• England

Coordinates

• 52.16045, -0.70312

Additional physical characteristics

• Illustrated. First edition (but not first issued of all parts) with parts in their original state with paper wrappers.

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Victorian Serial Novels Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• fiction (general genre)
• books
• serials (publications)
• publications (documents)
• novels

Date digitized

• June 19, 2008

Technical note

• Compressed from archive at 40% size and 150 dpi; saved as medium quality (5) jpg; 300 dpi TIFF; no colour correction; archived in Cataloguing on DVD. Digitized by KM and CDW, technical metadata provided by KM and CDW, cataloguing metadata provided by GF and KD.

Permalink

• https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/2f6e68c1-cf7d-4f0b-9409-2adedefb57bb

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

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