Rating: Summary: A British Don Quixote Review: This hilarious book tells the outrageous adventures of a cast of characters to remember forever. It's a joyous, humane, and faithful portrait of the British society. It is full of acuteness, irony, tenderness and sarcasm about the human condition. As in all of his books, Dickens reflects his experiences (prison for debts, etc.) in this book which tells the love affairs, countless drunken nights and fights in which the Pickwickians get. Apparently a book whose only purpose is to entertain, it is, like all intelligent humor, a bitter but optimist critique of the human being. The cast of characters is wonderful, and you will be just delighted you picked up this volume."The Pickwick Papers" was the first fictional book by Dickens, and it shows how capable of good humor he was. The title's character is a restless good-spirited man, a Don Quixote with a British touch, whose adventures are less noble and a lot more messy that those of the Don. The story of his friendship with the rest of the crew is hilarious and moving at the same time. Come read the story of this excentric lot, as they drink their way in and out of trouble.
Rating: Summary: The first Dickens and a very comical one Review: This is Dickens first work , and one of his most comical. His depiction of what for him is a typically eccentric gathering of English characters is satirically brilliant and warmly comic at once. This is the stage where Dickens seems to have warmth for a good share of his characters, and even the ridicule does not seem as bitter as it will later on become. I could not really follow the plot if there is one but recommend reading this in whatever pages the reader happens to find himself enjoying.
Rating: Summary: Marvellous spare timer ! Review: Travelling by train to my Technical University it was the first english written pocket book I bought and read in the compartment constantly laughing at
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