Back مذكرات بكوك Arabic Yona eluxa ke Pickwick (suterot) AVK پیکویک خاطرات دفتری AZB The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Breton Els papers pòstums del Club Pickwick Catalan The Pickwick Papers Corsican Kronika Pickwickova klubu Czech Pickwick Klubben Danish Die Pickwickier German The Pickwick Papers Esperanto
 Later reprint of original 1836 cover with the name of Illustrator Robert Seymour removed. | |
| Author | Charles Dickens ("Boz") |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members |
| Illustrator | Robert Seymour Robert William Buss Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Travels in the English Countryside |
| Genre | Novel |
| Published | Serialised March 1836 – November 1837; book format 1837 |
| Publisher | Chapman & Hall |
| Publication place | England |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Sketches by Boz |
| Followed by | Oliver Twist |
| Text | The Pickwick Papers at Wikisource |
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, a collection of short pieces originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836, published in book form in February 1836 by John Macrone of London. Publishers Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by widely popular illustrator Robert Seymour,[1] and to connect them into a novel, under Dickens's pen name of Boz. The book became a publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books, and other merchandise.[2] On its cultural impact, Nicholas Dames in The Atlantic writes, "'Literature' is not a big enough category for Pickwick. It defined its own, a new one that we have learned to call 'entertainment'."[3] The Pickwick Papers was published in 19 issues over 20 months, and it popularised serialised fiction and cliffhanger endings.[4]
Seymour would die violently just as the book was beginning to be published in serial form, in April 1836. Seymour's widow Jane Seymour claimed that her husband originated and named the Pickwick Club and most of the main characters and framework of The Pickwick Papers in 1835, creating Mr Pickwick as far back as 1832. Thirty-one years after the Pickwick serial was launched, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input from Seymour in his preface to the 1867 edition: "Mr. Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book."[5] This has been contradicted by numerous authors, both during Dickens's lifetime and since, including Dickens's trusted friend John Forster, who acknowledged in his 1872 biography of Dickens that The Pickwick Papers began with Seymour.
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cross, Wilbur L. (1920). . In Rines, George Edwin (ed.). Encyclopedia Americana.
- ^ "The Sam Weller Bump". The Paris Review. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ Dames, Nicholas (June 2015). "Was Dickens a Thief?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "The modern serialised story". Medium. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ C. Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1867 reprint), p.8