Autumn/Winter 2020: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
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.
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October 25 |
The Pickwick Papers: Chapters 1-19 |
Christian Lehmann, Faculty of Literature, Bard High School and Early College, Cleveland |
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November 22 |
The Pickwick Papers: Chapters 20-38 |
Wayne Batten, Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member |
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January 24 |
The Pickwick Papers: Chapters 39-end |
Katie Holdway, University of Southampton |
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 Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
