Mr. Pickwick's Christmas (Musaicum Christmas Specials)

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Charles Dickens. Mr. Pickwick's Christmas (Musaicum Christmas Specials)

Mr. Pickwick's Christmas (Musaicum Christmas Specials)

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INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

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What wonder that the idea to present Pickwick pictorially should appeal to Robert Seymour and inspire that famous plate, “Pickwick addressing the Club”! This is a happy portrait and has fixed for all time the indelible image of its subject upon the world’s mind.

In this matter of pictorial embellishment Dickens’s writings have always held a unique position. Dickens himself preferred to have his works appear unadorned by pictures, but the demand made by his public called into service the most talented pencils from George Cruikshank to Frederick Barnard. Hence, beside the plates for the original editions, we have innumerable engravings for subsequent editions and for special forms of reproduction.

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