Undoubtedly, the adventures of benevolent Mr Pickwick, sensitive Mr Tupman, literary Mr Snodgrass and sportive Mr Winkle will continue to delight readers of all ages for a couple of hundreds of years more from now. Unlike the rest of Dickens's novels, this book is just the extremely enjoyable story of the four above-named gentlemen who decide to create a club of which Mr Pickwick is the main member. We follow them all around London, into the countryside and even inside a debtors' prison. On their way, they meet several memorable characters, including Mr Jingle, Job Trotter, Messrs Dodson and Fogg and even a couple of ladies two of them fall in love with. The novel has no main plot, resulting in a thoroughly enjoyable story that's read in a light, lively way. Moreover, "Pickwick Papers" is a wonderful insight into Victorian society, written in the way only Dickens can write.

Full illustrated with the original black and white illustrations by Seymour and Phiz.

This one was a real pain to do, by the way. It's full of songs, verses, letters, etc, all of which needed extensive re-formatting from the PG original. Took hours and hours to produce.

Enjoy!

EDIT: 18 Dec 07

Completely recreated the book. Improved the formatting and added illustrations. Uploaded v2.

EDIT: 21 Mar 07

Recreated the book to sort out problems with paragraph endings. Improved the layout and formatting. Uploaded v4.

Previous download count: 281

i do, i do

i load books on sunday, for this one i'll load today

thanks

Beautiful job on the formatting Harry.

Completely recreated the book. Improved the formatting and added illustrations. Uploaded v2.

Recreated the book to sort out problems with paragraph endings. Improved the layout and formatting. Uploaded v4.

Brilliant. Thanks Harry. Greetings to Warrington from Chorley!!!

Thank you for The Pickwick Papers. Downloaded a version elsewhere and did a comparison: yours is by far the best. Love the preface to the original edition, the hyperlinks to the illustrations. Excellent.

Jelis

I just had a good laugh: tried to give you some well-deserved karma and got this message:
"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to HarryT again!"


Jelis

Its a little belated, but thanks Harry. This is another of my all time favorite books and real pleasure to read.

I just downloaded it and looked at it on my laptop. Beautifully produced with nice layout and clean illustrations.