The quintessentially English Don Quixote, here presented in a new
edition based on the authoritative text and accompanied by notes and
extra material to help the modern reader.
A rich and varied array of stories and vignettes, The Pickwick Papers
is based around the investigations of the Corresponding Society of the
Pickwick Club, consisting of its founder Mr Samuel Pickwick and Messrs
Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, who travel around
the country and then report back to the club concerning their
extraordinary adventures and experiences.
Dickens's first novel, The Pickwick Papers was an immediate success
and caught the public imagination in a manner that few debuts have ever
matched. Replete with colorful characters, fantastical anecdotes and a
farcical plot, it catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to literary
stardom, and is widely considered to be one of the great comic
masterpieces of nineteenth-century literature.