{"product_id":"9780374712648","title":"Death and Mr. Pickwick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath and Mr. Pickwick\u003c\/i\u003e is a vast, richly imagined, Dickensian work about the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age. Like Charles Dickens did in his immortal novels, Stephen Jarvis has spun a tale full of preposterous characters, shaggy-dog stories, improbable reversals, skulduggery, betrayal, and valor-all true, and all brilliantly brought to life in his unputdownable book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club\u003c\/i\u003e, featuring the fat and lovable Mr. Pickwick and his Cockney manservant, Sam Weller, began as a series of whimsical sketches, the brainchild of the brilliant, erratic, misanthropic illustrator named Robert Seymour, a denizen of the back alleys and grimy courtyards where early nineteenth-century London's printers and booksellers plied their cutthroat trade. When Seymour's publishers, after trying to match his magical etchings with a number of writers, settled on a young storyteller using the pen name Boz, \u003ci\u003eThe Pickwick Papers \u003c\/i\u003ewent on to become a worldwide phenomenon, outselling every other book besides the Bible and Shakespeare's plays. And Boz, as the young Charles Dickens signed his work, became, in the eyes of many, the most important writer of his time. The fate of Robert Seymour, Mr. Pickwick's creator, a very different story-one untold before now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew novels deserve to be called magnificent. \u003ci\u003eDeath and Mr. Pickwick\u003c\/i\u003e is one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104267157744,"sku":"9780374712648","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374712648_p0.jpg?v=1769916079","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374712648","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}