"One of my life's greatest tragedies," said George Orwell, "is to have already read Pickwick Papers. I can't go back and read it for the first time." The serialized novel of 1836 was one of the first ...

ONE hundred years ago, March 1836, a thin green paper-covered pamphlet called No. 1 of the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was offered to a quite indifferent London reading public. Humble and ...

“There are very few moments in a man’s existence, when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.” Yet there ...

Get the best news & discounts for Broadway Shows & beyond.

There was much joyful Christmas spirit, positively Pickwickian, one could say, when on Dec. 18, Mr. Pickwick presented 24 young ladies at the Pickwick Club's 63rd annual Debutante Presentation. In its ...

The scene at the Pickwick Club would have no doubt cheered Mr. Pickwick himself. The interior of the club's 19 th-century building -- adorned with red and white poinsettias, garland intertwined with ...

BARRE Call it artistic license, but the sculpture of Samuel Pickwick that Italian-born artist Giuliano Cecchinelli crafted from clay more than 50 years ago and later carved from a huge hunk of Barre ...

Get the best news & discounts for Broadway Shows & beyond.

WHO WOULD HAVE thought that behind such a good-natured novel as Charles Dickens’s “The Pickwick Papers” lies a tale of coldhearted literary skulduggery? But in his debut novel, “Death and Mr. Pickwick ...

"One of my life's greatest tragedies," said George Orwell, "is to have already read Pickwick Papers. I can't go back and read it for the first time." The serialized novel of 1836 was one of the first ...