ONE hundred years ago, March 1836, a thin green paper-covered pamphlet called No. 1 of the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was offered to a quite indifferent London reading public. Humble and ...

"One of my life's greatest tragedies," said George Orwell, "is to have already read Pickwick Papers. I can't go back and read it for the first time." The serialized novel of 1836 was one of the first ...

This story of the Pickwick Papers’ prehistory dramatises the lives of those who were caught up in, and destroyed by, its triumph Like many an early-Victorian classic – Vanity Fair is an obvious ...

There was much joyful Christmas spirit, positively Pickwickian, one could say, when on Dec. 18, Mr. Pickwick presented 24 young ladies at the Pickwick Club's 63rd annual Debutante Presentation. In its ...

“There are very few moments in a man’s existence, when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.” Yet there ...

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However, Cecchinelli s Mr. Pickwick does wear spectacles and, like the hero of Dickens The Pickwick Papers, the impressive sculpture has traveled a bit, though its next stop the lawn in front of the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

"One of my life's greatest tragedies," said George Orwell, "is to have already read Pickwick Papers. I can't go back and read it for the first time." The serialized novel of 1836 was one of the first ...

WHO WOULD HAVE thought that behind such a good-natured novel as Charles Dickens’s “The Pickwick Papers” lies a tale of coldhearted literary skulduggery? But in his debut novel, “Death and Mr. Pickwick ...