The genial Mr. Pickwick and his club ramble across England, tumbling through misadventures, lawsuits, and the comic loyalty of Sam Weller.
Books mentioned in The Pickwick Papers (2)
Encyclopaedia Britannica: “'He _crammed _for it, to use a technical but expressive term; he read up for the subject, at my desire, in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica."'”
Richard III by William Shakespeare: “He had never had a sword in his hand before, except once when he played Richard the Third at a private theatre, upon which occasion it was arranged with Richmond that he was to be run through, from behind, without showing fight at all.”
Books that mention The Pickwick Papers (13)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: “as all of the girls admired Dickens, they called themselves the Pickwick Club.”
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell: “Have you seen any numbers of ‘The Pickwick Papers’?”
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume: “Yes; do you remember that horrible story of Dickens', in the 'Pickwick Papers,' about the man who was mad, and knew it, yet successfully concealed it for years?”
Fraternity by John Galsworthy: “Speke's “Discovery of the Sources of the Nile”; the “Pickwick Papers””
2666 by Roberto Bolaño: “A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers.”
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Title essay: 'fondest of all of The Pickwick Papers'”
Grant by Ron Chernow: “He was one of the greatest readers I ever saw. Grant retained special affection for Dickens, especially The Pickwick Papers, Dombey and Son, Little Dorrit, and Oliver Twist.”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “I used to reread Dickens's The Pick wick Papers twice a year, wearing out several copies in the process.”
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov: “...staring greedily at the bindings, undecided as to which to take out first, The Pickwick Papers or the bound volumes of the Russian Herald for 1871.”
In Search of a Character by Graham Greene: “...F., the young RNVR officer who seems likely to prove my drinking companion, has brought The Pickwick Papers.”
Babel by R. F. Kuang: “He stumbled on a series called The Pickwick Papers by someone named Charles Dickens”
The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge: “'Bravo!' cried Charles;'he is so disappointed that it is not Pickwick that he does not know what else to say.'”
Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes: “…h-form boys to fag us as they do?" "No more right than you have to fag them," answered East, without looking up from an early number of "Pickwick," which was just coming out, and which he was luxuriously devouring, stretched on his back on the sofa.”