5/22/2023 0 Comments The pickwick papers book review![]() I had read humorous authors – Wodehouse, Thurber – but I had not expected it from a Sunday afternoon telly serial classic. ![]() I still remember the surprise that Dickens could make me laugh out loud, and that is what made me love it. Even Christmas at Dingley Dell is infused with sunshine in my memory. It was my first Dickens and, as my school and university careers had been taken up by set books, it was a liberation. The spine is completely broken at page 476 and there are stains (suntan lotion? Coca-Cola?) on the pages, so I must have been enthralled. My Penguin copy is punctiliously dated 8 July that year (I used to do that sort of thing). I t was in the long, hot summer of 1975, after finishing university and before the shades of the prison-house – finding a job – closed in that somehow, for reasons I cannot now recall, I found myself reading The Pickwick Papers in my parents’ sun-dappled garden. ![]()
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