the posthumous papers of the pickwick club

Pickwick, founder and president of the Pickwick Club, decides that he and fellow members, Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman, will leave London and travel the countryside to discover the wonderful qualities of life, each reporting to the others what they find. Pickwick and his marvellous, and at times unbelievable, adventures. If I was to do it over, I’d read a chapter per week instead of three at once and that way hopefully remain more present in the story.Īnd the book itself …. It was almost like starting a book over and over again and never really getting traction. It’s not that I necessarily forgot what had happened, but I found that when I picked it up again, I was somewhat disengaged with the characters. Looking back, I enjoyed reading only 2 to 3 chapters at a time, but the space between them, for me, was too long.

We read it in installments mirroring its original release which was an enlightening experience in itself. It’s hardly believable but O’s 2 year read-along of the Pickwick Papers has finally come to a close and I have her to thank for finally being able to finish this 800-page marvel. “The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brillancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, is derived from the perusal of the following entry in the Transactions of the Pickwick Club, which the editor of these papers feels the highest pleasure in laying before his readers, as a proof of the careful attention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination, with which his search among the multifarious documents confided to him has been conducted.”

The posthumous papers of the pickwick club