October 25, 2020 – January 24, 2021 from 1:00-3:00 PM (Pacific) | Virtual Events
The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. Join us in traveling the English countryside with Samuel Pickwick and the Pickwickians, as we discuss Dickens’s first novel, The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club.
October 25, 2020
Chapters 1-19
Discussion Facilitator: Christian Lehmann, Faculty of Literature, Bard High School and Early College, Cleveland
November 22, 2020
Chapters 20-38
Discussion Facilitator: Wayne Batten (Friends of the Dickens Project)
January 26, 2025
Chapters 39-End of Book
Discussion Facilitator: Katie Holdway, University of Southampton
Please Note: This session was not recorded at the request of our guest speaker.
Recommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel, but other versions are fine. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen to at LibriVox.org.
The Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship, is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
