Death and Mr Pickwick
Death and Mr Pickwick

Author: Stephen Jarvis

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2015-05-21

Total Pages: 818

ISBN-13: 1448192005

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Shortlisted for the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown It is 31 March 1836. A new monthly periodical is launched entitled The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Conceived and created by the artist Robert Seymour, it contains four of his illustrations. The words to accompany them are written by a young journalist, under the pen-name Boz. The journalist's real name is Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers soon becomes a phenomenal, unprecedented sensation, read and discussed by the entire British Isles. Before long, its success is worldwide. Stephen Jarvis's novel tells of the dawning of the age of global celebrity. It is a story of colossal triumph and of the depths of tragedy, based on real events - and an expose of how an ambitious young writer stole another man's ideas.

The Dickens Digest
The Dickens Digest

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher:

Published: 2013-03

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9781258649104

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Four Great Dickens Masterpieces, Condensed For The Modern Reader.

Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel
Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel

Author: Adam Abraham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-22

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1108493076

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Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.

The Pickwick Murders
The Pickwick Murders

Author: Heather Redmond

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1496734289

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In a reimagining of Charles Dickens’ classic The Pickwick Papers, Heather Redmond’s fourth Victorian-era mystery in the Dickens of a Crime series finds a young Charles tossed into Newgate Prison for a murder he didn’t commit, and his fiancée Kate Hogarth striving to clear his name… London, January 1836: Just weeks before the release of his first book, Charles is intrigued by an invitation to join the exclusive Lightning Club. But his initiation in a basement maze takes a wicked turn when he stumbles upon the corpse of Samuel Pickwick, the club’s president. With the victim’s blood literally on his hands, Charles is locked away in notorious Newgate Prison. Now it’s up to Kate to keep her framed fiancé from the hangman’s noose. To solve this labyrinthine mystery, she is forced to puzzle her way through a fiendish series of baffling riddles sent to her in anonymous poison pen letters. With the help of family and friends, she must keep her wits about her to corner the real killer—before time runs out and Charles Dickens meets a dead end…

Charles Dickens Books
Charles Dickens Books

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-21

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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The Chimes A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of Christmas books five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840's.

The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-12-14

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781522738695

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A Charles Dickens short story that was actually the inspiration for "A Christmas Carol." In this story, a gravedigger that hates Christmas gets kidnapped by goblins while digging a grave and then they help him get into the Christmas spirit. The beginning of this version has a biography of the author.