{"title":"Stephen Jarvis","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"death-and-mr-pickwick-sld","title":"Death and Mr Pickwick - SLD","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLined by the author: A lovely, glowing beaming thing was Mr Pickwick.\" Dated 21st May 2015\u003c\/strong\u003e  On 31 March 1836 the publishers Chapman \u0026amp; Hall launched the first issue of a new monthly periodical entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club\u003c\/i\u003e. Conceived and created by the artist Robert Seymour, it contained four of his illustrations; the words to accompany them were written by a young journalist who used the pen-name Boz.  The story of a sporting-cum-drinking club presided over by fat, loveable Mr Pickwick, assisted by his cockney manservant Sam Weller, \u003ci\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003c\/i\u003e soon became a popular sensation, outselling every other book except the Bible and Shakespeares plays, and read and discussed by the entire population of the British Isles, from the dukes drawing-room to the lowliest chophouse. The fame of Mr Pickwick soon spread worldwide  making \u003ci\u003eThe Pickwick Papers \u003c\/i\u003ethe greatest literary phenomenon in history.  But one does not need to have read a single word of \u003ci\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003c\/i\u003e to be enthralled by the story of how this extraordinary novel came to be. The creation and afterlife of \u003ci\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003c\/i\u003e is the subject of Stephen Jarviss novel, \u003ci\u003eDeath and Mr Pickwick.\u003c\/i\u003eThis vast, intricately constructed, indeed Dickensian work is at once the ultimate homage to a much-loved book, tracing its genesis and subsequent history in fascinating detail, and a damning indictment of how an ambitious young writer expropriated another mans ideas and then engaged in an elaborate cover-up of \u003ci\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003c\/i\u003e true origin.  Few novels deserve to be called magnificent. \u003ci\u003eDeath and Mr Pickwick\u003c\/i\u003e is one of them.","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263730729254,"sku":"9780224099660","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/06e743c7-dc97-45bf-972d-f73af805d360.jpg?v=1701084686"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/stephen-jarvis.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}