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001 2015002954
003 DLC
005 20151119082558.0
008 150205s2015 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2015002954
020 $a9780374139667 (hardback)
020 $z9780374712648 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aPR6110.A785$bD43 2015
082 00 $a823/.92$223
084 $aFIC019000$aFIC014000$aFIC011000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aJarvis, Stephen,$d1958-$eauthor.
245 10 $aDeath and Mr. Pickwick /$cStephen Jarvis.
250 $aFirst American edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2015.
300 $a802 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"On March 31, 1836, the publishers Chapman & Hall launched the first issue of a new monthly periodical entitled The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Conceived and created by the artist Robert Seymour, it contained four of his illustrations; the words to accompany them were written by a young journalist who used the pen name Boz. The story of a club presided over by fat, loveable Mr. Pickwick, assisted by his cockney manservant Sam Weller, The Pickwick Papers soon became a sensation, outselling every other book except the Bible and Shakespeare's plays, read and discussed by the entire population of the British Isles, from the duke's drawing room to the lowliest chophouse. The fame of Mr. Pickwick soon spread worldwide--making The Pickwick Papers the greatest literary phenomenon in history. But one does not need to have read a single word of The Pickwick Papers to be enthralled by the story of how this extraordinary novel came to be. The creation and afterlife of this masterpiece is the subject of Stephen Jarvis's novel, Death and Mr. Pickwick. This vast, intricately constructed, indeed Dickensian work is at once the ultimate homage to a much-loved book, tracing its genesis and subsequent history in fascinating detail, and a damning indictment of how an ambitious young writer expropriated another man's ideas and then engaged in an elaborate cover-up of The Pickwick Papers' true origin."--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aSeymour, Robert,$d1798-1836$vFiction.
600 10 $aDickens, Charles,$d1812-1870.$tPickwick papers$vFiction.
600 10 $aDickens, Charles,$d1812-1870$xCharacters$vFiction.
650 0 $aAuthors, English$y19th century$vFiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Historical.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Gay.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aBiographical fiction$2gsafd
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/667/9780374139667/image/lgcover.9780374139667.jpg