FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>   >|  
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Pickwickian Manners and Customs, by Percy Fitzgerald This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Pickwickian Manners and Customs Author: Percy Fitzgerald Release Date: June 25, 2007 [eBook #21921] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PICKWICKIAN MANNERS AND CUSTOMS*** Transcribed from the [1897] Roxburghe Press edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org {Book cover: cover.jpg} PICKWICKIAN MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, BY PERCY FITZGERALD. THE _ROXBURGHE PRESS_, LIMITED, FIFTEEN, VICTORIA STREET, WESTMINSTER. {Bentley's Miscellany cartoon: p0.jpg} Inscribed TO AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, M.P. PICKWICKIAN MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. No English book has so materially increased the general gaiety of the country, or inspired the feeling of comedy to such a degree as, "The Pickwick Club." It is now some "sixty years since" this book was published, and it is still heartily appreciated. What English novel or story is there which is made the subject of notes and commentaries on the most elaborate scale; whose very misprints and inconsistencies are counted up; whose earliest "states of the plates" are sought out and esteemed precious? "Pickwick," wonderful to say, is the only story that has produced a literature of its own--quite a little library--and has kept artists, topographers, antiquaries, and collectors all busily at work. There seems to be some mystery, almost miracle, here. A young fellow of four-and-twenty throws off, or rather "rattles off," in the exuberance of his spirits, a never-flagging series of incidents and characters. The story is read, devoured, absorbed, all over the world, and now, sixty years after its appearance, new and yet newer editions are being issued. All the places alluded to and described in the book have in their turn been lifted into fame, and there are constantly appearing in magazines illustrated articles on "Rochester and Dickens," "Dickens Land," "Dickens' London," and the rest. Wonderful! People, indeed, seem never to tire of the subject--the same topics are taken up over and over again. The secret seems to be tha
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>   >|  



Top keywords:
MANNERS
 

Dickens

 

PICKWICKIAN

 
English
 
CUSTOMS
 

Pickwick

 
subject
 

Fitzgerald

 
Customs
 

Project


Pickwickian

 

Gutenberg

 

Manners

 

miracle

 

antiquaries

 

busily

 
mystery
 

misprints

 

collectors

 

artists


wonderful

 
earliest
 

states

 

fellow

 

precious

 
sought
 

plates

 

produced

 

library

 

esteemed


topographers

 

counted

 

literature

 

inconsistencies

 

absorbed

 
magazines
 
appearing
 

illustrated

 

articles

 

Rochester


constantly

 

lifted

 

London

 
topics
 

secret

 
Wonderful
 

People

 

series

 

flagging

 

incidents