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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Pickwick Papers
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(The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 1837, after being published in 20 monthly parts from April 1836) The work which made *Dickens's reputation, when he was 25. The fragmented nature of the book was deliberate, for it is merely an account of the comic adventures of the club founded by Samuel Pickwick (his fellow members are Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle). Pickwick's own cheerful incompetence, the cause of many of the disasters, is offset by the sharp wit of the most successful character, his cockney servant Sam Weller. The text was commissioned to accompany sporting illustrations by Robert Seymour (c.1800–36), whose suicide after the second number caused Dickens to bring in *Phiz.
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