Pickwick Papers
Victorian comedic novel
The Pickwick Papers is Charles Dickens's first novel, published serially in 1836–37.
It follows the eccentric Samuel Pickwick and his club companions through comic misadventures in early Victorian England.
The book established Dickens's reputation and pioneered the serialized novel format.
Pickwickian describes genial eccentricity or language used in a special, non-literal sense.
- debtor's prisonJail for the bankrupt
- serialized novelFiction issued in installments
- tavernsPublic drinking houses
- satireMockery exposing vice
- comedyWork meant to amuse
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