The Pickwick Papers

On the Clarendon Dickens The Oxford University Press continues its outstanding contribution to Dickens scholarship….This is a far more sophisticated scholarly edition of Dickens than has ever been attempted. –Times Literary Supplement. The Pickwick Papers, seventh novel in The Clarendon Dickens, joins the heralded series on the 150th anniversary of its first publication. Originally planned as a monthly column, the papers of the Pickwick Club quickly outgrew their origins to become a brilliantly comic novel whose hilarity did not preclude penetrating satire on the state of pre-Victorian London. James Kinsley’s introduction charts the novel’s development and reveals new sources and influences on the work.