Book for reading, adapted edition (English for beginners). In this issue there are several episodes from the famous novel by the classic English literature of Charles Dickens, "The Pickwick Club Death Papers".
In The Pickwick Papers, his first novel, Dickens displays the talents and skills that became his trademark; observational humour, pathos and social comment abound as we follow Mr Pickwick and Sam Weller, his sharp-tongued cockney servant, travelling around England with his friends in search of adventure and knowledge. Brilliantly comic scenes at the Eatanswill election, and the trial of Mrs Bardell vs Pickwick contrast with the horrors of the debtors prison. It was Thackeray who described the novel as ‘that great contemporary history’, and it presents a nostalgic view of England just before the coming of the railway.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. Written for publication as a serial, The Pickwick Papers is a sequence of loosely-related adventures. Its main literary value and appeal is formed by its numerous memorable characters. Each character in The Pickwick Papers, as in many other Dickens novels, is drawn comically, often with exaggerated personalities.
"The Pickwick Papers"
by Charles Dickens
[A BBC RADIO 4 FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION]
A Radio 4 dramatization of Dickens's episodic and amusing adventures of Mr Samuel Pickwick and his fellow-members of the Pickwick Club.
