The Pickwick Papers: Introduction

Is this book excessive, even for Dickens?

The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens

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First Line

“The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, is derived from t…