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The Pickwick Papers
- Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
- Length: 29 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
Pickwick was a huge success. Chapman and Hall printed only 1,000 copies of the first monthly installment; at the end of serialization 40,000 copies were being printed. Pickwick had taken Britain, and later the world, by storm and had successfully launched Dickens to celebrity status. The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find. In the course of their travels, they repeatedly encounter the friendly but disreputable Mr. Jingle, who becomes a continual source of trouble for all who know him. Pickwick himself is the victim of a number of misunderstandings that bring him both embarrassment and problems with the law.
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- ADB
- 05-12-21
Marvellous
Written long ago, still a heartwarming story, vivid in period detail and laugh out loud in places. Excellent narration brought it to life.
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- Katherine Walcot
- 27-05-18
Downloaded on whim and really glad I did!
LOVED this! Such a classic, interesting to think about Victorian society reading it in stages, I guess it was the 'Game of Thrones' (insert current 'must see' TV here) of its time! I can just imagine everyone talking about Pickwick's latest exploits. Brilliant fun.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-01-22
loved the narrator
loved the narrator, very entertaining story as always with Dickens great tour around 'olde England'
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- siouxiebloo
- 16-03-15
Charles Dickens , Excellent as always!
No-one can really know the meaning of a great read until they've read Charles Dickens!
Always entertaining his varied plotlines containing such an assortment of characters who you get the opportunity to know so well that when it comes to the closing of his tales you feel reluctant to turnover that last page...
I only hope that younger readers will take the time to read a Charles Dickens novel & give themselves the chance to see what 'Literary Genius' means...
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- fay
- 15-12-17
Classic very entertaining.
Great listening for a walk or bedtime.
Narrator on the whole pretty good, just a couple of characters irritating.
would recommend.
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- michael
- 11-04-17
Great book and narration
A wonderful story, one of the best Dickens and superb narration. The crumpet passage was priceless.
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- Rn Francis
- 26-07-15
As you would expect
Great story, superbly written and well narrated.
Good stuff, exactly what you would expect from a man like Charles Dickens, you know the craic.
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- Tinks
- 28-02-19
Story of stories
Parts of this book were funny and entertaining. However, I found my mind wandering in other parts. Collection of often unrelated anecdotal stories gathered on the travels of The Pickwickians told within the story of their expeditions. Interesting social observations as Dickens shines a light on the social inequalities and the unjust legal system of the day.
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- Sara Black
- 30-06-16
Horrible narration
Would you try another book written by Charles Dickens or narrated by Peter Batchelor?
I'd try more Dickens but nothing else by Peter Batchelor
What didn’t you like about Peter Batchelor’s performance?
There was no enthusiasm in the narrative parts - he might as well have been reading the phone book - and no subtlety in his representation of the different characters' dialogue. His differentiation between them was clumsy caricature. I gave up listening after the first few chapters
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