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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club foi o primeiro romance do autor inglês Charles Dickens, publicado pela primeira vez em forma seriada de março de 1836 a novembro de 1837. Devido ao seu sucesso com Sketches by Boz publicado em 1836, Dickens foi solicitado pelo editor Chapman & Hall a fornecer descrições para explicar uma série de "pranchas esportivas cockney" cômicas do ilustrador Robert Seymour e conectá-las em um romance. O livro se tornou um fenômeno editorial, com cópias piratas, encenações teatrais, livros de piadas de Sam Weller e outros produtos. Sobre seu impacto cultural, Nicholas Dames escreveu na The Atlantic: "'Literature' não é uma categoria grande o suficiente para Pickwick. Ela definiu a sua própria, uma nova que aprendemos a chamar de 'entertainment'." Publicado em 19 edições ao longo de 20 meses, o sucesso de The Pickwick Papers popularizou a ficção seriada e os finais cliffhanger.
“He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.”
“Did it ever strike you, on such a morning as this, that drowning would be happiness and peace?”
“Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful o’ widders all your life, specially if they’ve kept a public house, Sammy.”
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fireside and his quiet home!”
“By the bye, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote either, who hadn't got some small back parlour which he WOULD call a study!”
“Wotever is, is right, as the young nobleman sveetly remarked wen they put him down in the pension list 'cos his mother's uncle's vife's grandfather vunce lit the king's pipe vith a portable tinder-box.”
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