S2E10 This week, Ash and Adam are joined by Stephen Jarvis (author of Death and Mr. Pickwick) to discuss The Pickwick Papers, the first novel by Charles Dickens.

As well as exploring its unique publication history, they also cover the astonishing popularity of the novel, how Dickens transformed as a writer during its serial run and ask why most books are just books, but not Pickwick...

And if, like the worlds reading population for a century, you can’t get enough Pickwick - we’ll be joined on Monday again by Stephen Jarvis to discuss his own novel, which tells the life story of The Pickwick Papers’ illustrator, Robert Seymour - and makes the case that it was he, not Dickens, who had the first idea for the novel. 

You can find more about Stephen here:

www.deathandmrpickwick.com 

or by searching “Death and Mr Pickwick” on Facebook. 

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Music: "Not Drunk" by the Joy Drops