THE PICKWICK PAPERS is Charles Dickens"s first novel, and his comic masterpiece. We are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language but to some of fictions most endearing and memorable characters, starting with the "illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded" Samuel Pickwick himself. It is a rollicking tour deforce through an England on the brink of the Victorian era. Reform of government, justice and commercial life are imminent, as are rail travel, social convulsion and the death of deference, but Pickwick sails through on a tide of delirious adventure, fortifying us for the future - whatever it throws at us. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Pickwick Papers (подарочное издание) (Charles Dickens)