The Pickwick Papers
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel. He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836 (most of Dickens' novels were issued in shilling instalments before being published as complete volumes). Dickens (still writing under the pseudonym of Boz) increasingly took over the unsuccessful monthly publication after the original illustrator Robert Seymour had committed suicide.
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‰ЫП‰ЫчCurious circumstance about those initials, sir,‰ЫЄ said Mr. Magnus. ‰ЫчYou will observe–P.M.–post meridian. In hasty notes to intimate acquaintance, I sometimes sign myself ‰ЫПAfternoon.‰Ыќ It amuses my friend very much, Mr. Pickwick.‰ЫЄ‰Ыќ
‰ЫПBut bless our editorial heart, what a long chapter we have been betrayed into! We had quite forgotten all such petty restrictions as chapters, we solemnly declare. So here goes, to give the goblin a fair start in a new one! A clear stage and no favour for the goblines, ladies and gentlemen, if you please.‰Ыќ
