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 ...
Sheer storytelling gusto drives "The Pickwick Papers," and if Charles Dickens's first novel sometimes resembles a dinner-party guest who never stops talking, that's part of its charm. Now, 180 years ...