Pickwick Papers, The

American  

noun

1. (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club ) a novel (1837) by Charles Dickens.

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Example Sentences

In fact, it was the fable of Scrooge and the spirits that composed, along with an excerpt of “The Pickwick Papers,” the author’s final public reading, shortly before his exhausted death, at age 58, in June 1870.

From Washington Post

Coates’ first big editing job was on “The Pickwick Papers”, the 1952 black-and-white film directed by Noel Langley and based on the Charles Dickens novel.

From Los Angeles Times

With readings priced so that the ordinary working man and woman could attend, he worked through a repertoire of 16 extracts both comic and tragic: the courtroom scene from Pickwick Papers, the youthful romance of David Copperfield, the ever-popular Christmas Carol, and, most famously, his intense rendering of the murder of Nancy by Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist.

From The Guardian

Here the young author resided in 1835, the year previous to the production of the “Pickwick Papers,” the first number of that work being published April 1, 1836. 

From Project Gutenberg

He had a knowledge of books comprehensive and wonderful, of all ages and countries apparently, yet when the young man ventured to ask timidly, but with a sort of pride in his question, whether he had read the "Pickwick Papers," the answer overthrew him completely.

From Project Gutenberg