Death and Mr Pickwick
'Death and Mr. Pickwick' is an extroardinary novel about an extraordinary novel - Charles Dickens' 'The Pickwick Papers'. This vast, intricately constructed, indeed Dickensian work is at once the ultimate homage to a much-loved book, tracing its genesis and subsequent history in fascinating detail, and a damning indictment of how an ambitious young writer expropriated another man's ideas and then engaged in an elaborate cover-up of The Pickwick P...