{"product_id":"death-and-mr-pickwick-stephen-jarvis-9781250094667","title":"Death and Mr. Pickwick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"So dramatically convincing that it is all the more surprising how much of it is historically verifiable . . .  Jarvis] has written a novel that reflects upon the world-altering effects of novel reading.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Atlantic \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath and Mr. Pickwick\u003c\/i\u003e by Stephen Jarvis is a vast, richly imagined, Dickensian work about the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club\u003c\/i\u003e, featuring the fat and lovable Mr. Pickwick and his cockney manservant, Sam Weller, began as a series of whimsical sketches, the brainchild of the brilliant, erratic, misanthropic illustrator named Robert Seymour. When Seymour's publishers, after trying to match his magical etchings with a number of writers, settled on a young storyteller using the pen name Boz, as the young Charles Dickens signed his work, \u003ci\u003eThe Pickwick Papers \u003c\/i\u003ewent on to become a worldwide phenomenon, and Dickens became, in the eyes of many, the most important writer of his time. The fate of Robert Seymour, Mr. Pickwick's creator, was a very different story--one untold before now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew novels deserve to be called magnificent: \u003ci\u003eDeath and Mr. Pickwick\u003c\/i\u003e is one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Jarvis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250094666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250094667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.40d","brand":"Stephen Jarvis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43924552745215,"sku":"9781250094667","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_549283a6-b70f-402a-b7e4-da6b849c0c8a.jpg?v=1681072088","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/death-and-mr-pickwick-stephen-jarvis-9781250094667","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}