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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by English author Charles Dickens.His previous work was Sketches by Boz, published in 1836, and his publisher Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour, [1] and to connect them into a novel.
Samuel Pickwick is a fictional character and the main protagonist in The Pickwick Papers (1836), the first novel by author Charles Dickens.One of the author's most famous and loved creations, [1] Pickwick is a retired successful businessman and is the founder and chairman of the Pickwick Club, [2] a club formed to explore places remote from London and investigate the quaint and curious ...
Illustration for The Pickwick Papers (1837) Buss was commissioned by Dickens' publishers, Chapman and Hall, to provide two illustrations for The Pickwick Papers after the original illustrator, Robert Seymour, committed suicide. Buss immediately set aside his other work and prepared a dozen or so preliminary sketches for the novel, then in its ...
Edward Chapman. Edward Chapman (13 January 1804 – 20 February 1880) was a British publisher who, with William Hall founded Chapman & Hall, publishers for Charles Dickens (from 1840 until 1844 and again from 1858 until 1870), William Thackeray, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, [1] Anthony Trollope, Eadweard Muybridge and Evelyn Waugh among others.
Aside from Mr Pickwick himself, Winkle is the most prominent and the most amusing of the Pickwickians. In the Preface to the first cheap edition of The Pickwick Papers (1847) Dickens wrote, "I connected Mr Pickwick with a club, because of the original suggestion [made by the publishers], and I put in Mr Winkle expressly for the use of Mr Seymour."
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Thomas Onwhyn (c.1811 – 21 January 1886) was an English artist, illustrator, engraver, satirist, and cartoonist. He also published an illustrated pirate edition of The Pickwick Papers in 1837 under the pen-name of "Samuel Weller", after Dickens's character in the book.
Heartstopper author Alice Oseman wrote that I Wish You All the Best is "a soft, sweet, and incredibly important story about a non-binary teen finding their voice. This book is going to be so ...