Pickwick Papers
(Charles Dickens)
If ever English literature did boast of possessing a supreme comic novel in the Victorian era ,it was none other than PICKWICK PAPERS by the celebrated novelist ,Charles Dickens!! PICKWICK PAPERS had been published in the year 1836.It pivots round the pleasure tours of the Pickwick Club. Samuel Pickwick was the permanent president of the Club. The tours give way to some sparkling encounters. A jaunt to Rochester involves saving Miss Wardle from the rascally Mr. Jingle.The novel definitely attains a great significance when Pickwick meets Sam Weller ,the cockney boot-black of the White Hart Inn. Weller?s homely wit and unwavering presence of mind extricate the Pickwickians from many a scrape.But the adventurers got entangled in the mesh of law and even rdoubtable Sam Weller could not prevent it. Pickwick was found guilty of breach of promise in a trumped-up case by his landlady Mrs. Bardell. Refusing to pay , Pickwick was thrown into Fleet Prison where Mrs. Bardell also foowed suit when she was unable to pay her lawyers, Dodgson and Fogg. To reconcile Mr. Allen to the marriage of his daughter to Mr. Winkle , Pickwick cleared his fines and came out free. Miss Wardle got properly married to Mr. Snodgrass. Samuel Pickwick dissolved the Club and retired to the country, ending up being the god father to little Winkles and Snodgrasses.PICKWICK PAPERS is not just a novel,in the strictest sense of the term. It is a burlesque on the picaresque adventures of the 18th century novels. It may be t best called a panoramic novel in which about three hundred characters hop in and hop out in a perplexing succession. The characters are old comic stand-by , but Dickens charges them with a wild fantasy and infectious gusto. Pickwick, Sam Weller are unforgettable comic creations. In this book an interesting , faithful portrayal of rural England has been put forth. The book reminds every reader of Cervantes? Don Quixote. Dr. Ketaki Datta
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