"One of my life's greatest tragedies," said George Orwell, "is to have already read Pickwick Papers. I can't go back and read it for the first time." The serialized novel of 1836 was one of the first ...

ONE hundred years ago, March 1836, a thin green paper-covered pamphlet called No. 1 of the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was offered to a quite indifferent London reading public. Humble and ...

“There are very few moments in a man’s existence, when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.” Yet there ...

There was much joyful Christmas spirit, positively Pickwickian, one could say, when on Dec. 18, Mr. Pickwick presented 24 young ladies at the Pickwick Club's 63rd annual Debutante Presentation. In its ...

There couldn't have been a prettier place to be on Dec. 20, when the Pickwick Club held its annual debutante presentation. The club was founded in 1857, with Charles Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers" as ...

BARRE Call it artistic license, but the sculpture of Samuel Pickwick that Italian-born artist Giuliano Cecchinelli crafted from clay more than 50 years ago and later carved from a huge hunk of Barre ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On an April evening in 1836, two collaborators working on what would become one of the most popular novels of the 19th century met in London. The guest was the project’s illustrator, the comic artist ...

"One of my life's greatest tragedies," said George Orwell, "is to have already read Pickwick Papers. I can't go back and read it for the first time." The serialized novel of 1836 was one of the first ...