Book
Pickwick Papers
- Published
- 1837
- Genre
- Classics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Pages
- 801
- Words
- 274718
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/229432.The_Pickwick_Papers?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_15
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 11.8
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 1210L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 8 onwards · ages 13–16
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers–-a comic masterpiece that catapulted its 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtor’s prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour & literary invention.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780191585012
- ISBN-10
- 0191585017
Tags
CultureEnglandFictionInterpersonal Relationships-FriendshipPrisonSocial Issues