The Pickwick Papers

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Collins Clear-Type Press, 1905 - 765 من الصفحات
Samuel Pickwick, the eponymous hero of Charles Dickens's first novel, longs to explore the world outside London's gates. He enlists the participation of three friends--the Pickwickians, as they come to call themselves--and in their travels they encounter a wide swath of their English countrymen, including Pickwick's quick-witted foil, Sam Weller. In true Dickensian style, The Pickwick Papers is richly colored with quotidian detail, both celebrating and skewering life in Victorian England, and it showcases Dickens's particular gift for finding humor in the most unexpected moments.

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الصفحة 461 - Oh, quite enough to get, sir, as the soldier said ven they ordered him three hundred and fifty lashes," replied Sam. "You must not tell us what the soldier, or any other man, said, sir," interposed the judge, "it's not evidence.
الصفحة 391 - Not an uncommon thing upon ice, Sir," replied Mr. Weller. " Hold up, Sir." This last observation of Mr. Weller's bore reference to a demonstration Mr. Winkle made at the instant, of a frantic desire to throw his feet in the air, and dash the back of his head on the ice. " These — these — are very awkward skates ; ain't they, Sam ? " inquired Mr. Winkle, staggering. " I'm afeerd there's an orkard gen'l'm'n in 'em, Sir," replied Sam. " Now, Winkle," cried Mr. Pickwick, quite unconscious that there...
الصفحة 70 - The wall must be crumbled, the stones decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim : And the mouldering dust that years have made, Is a merry meal for him. • Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green.
الصفحة 153 - Hush. Don't ask any questions. It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do." " But suppose there are two mobs ? " suggested Mr. Snodgrass. "Shout with the largest,
الصفحة 452 - My client's hopes and prospects are ruined, and it is no figure of speech to say that her occupation is gone indeed. The bill is down — but there is no tenant. Eligible single gentlemen pass and repass — but there is no invitation for them to inquire within or without. All is gloom and silence in the house ; even the voice of the child is hushed ; his infant sports are disregarded when his mother weeps; his 'alley tors 'and his 'commoneys' are alike neglected ; he forgets the long familiar cry...
الصفحة 430 - Samivel," said Mr. Weller, in reproachful accents, " I didn't think you'd ha
الصفحة 392 - No ; but really I had scarcely begun," remonstrated Mr. Winkle. " Take his skates off," repeated Mr. Pickwick firmly. The command was not to be resisted. Mr. Winkle allowed Sam to obey it in silence. " Lift him up,
الصفحة 390 - Now, then, sir," said Sam, in an encouraging tone ; "off with you, and show 'em how to do it. " "Stop, Sam, stop!" said Mr. Winkle, trembling violently, and clutching hold of Sam's arms with the grasp of a drowning man. "How slippery it is, Sam ! " "Not an uncommon thing upon ice, sir,
الصفحة 3 - And how much more interesting did the spectacle become, when, starting into full life and animation, as a simultaneous call for " Pickwick " burst from his followers, that illustrious man slowly mounted into the Windsor chair, on which he had been previously seated, and addressed the club himself had founded.

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Charles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on February 7, 1812. His happy early childhood was interrupted when his father was sent to debtors' prison, and young Dickens had to go to work in a factory at age twelve. Later, he took jobs as an office boy and journalist before publishing essays and stories in the 1830s. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, made him a famous and popular author at the age of twenty-five. Subsequent works were published serially in periodicals and cemented his reputation as a master of colorful characterization, and as a harsh critic of social evils and corrupt institutions. His many books include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, and the couple had nine children before separating in 1858 when he began a long affair with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. Despite the scandal, Dickens remained a public figure, appearing often to read his fiction. He died in 1870, leaving his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.

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