In this classic social commentary from Dickens, Mr. Samuel
Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is
determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come
to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the
Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel
Winkle, the portly innocent embarks on a series of hilariously
comic adventures. But can Pickwick retain his good will towards his
fellow humans once he discovers the evils of the world?
Charles Dickens's satirical masterpiece, "The Pickwick Papers,"
catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first
serialized in 1836-37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the
members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting
into all sorts of mischief.
Laugh-out-loud funny and endlessly entertaining, the book also
reveals Dickens's burgeoning interest in the parliamentary system,
lawyers, the Poor Laws, and the ills of debtors' prisons.
As G. K. Chesterton noted, "Before Dickens] wrote a single real
story, he had a kind of vision . . . a map full of fantastic towns,
thundering coaches, clamorous market-places, uproarious inns,
strange and swaggering figures. That vision was Pickwick."
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
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