The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
- First published
- 1836
- Language
- English
- VocaScene level
- C1
- Genre
- comedy
- Length
- About 302k words
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The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy 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.
‘May 12, 1827. Joseph Smiggers, Esq., P.V.P.M.P.C. [Perpetual Vice- President--Member Pickwick Club], presiding. The following resolutions unanimously agreed to:--
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