num_pages: 816
description: 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.”
language: English
title: The Pickwick Papers
titlecomplete: The Pickwick Papers (Modern Library Classics)
characters: Tracy Tupman, Nathaniel Winkle, Solomon Pell, Emily Wardle, Bob Sawyer, Benjamin Allen, Augustus Snodgrass, Mr. Fogg, Mrs. Bardell, Mr. Perker, Dr. Slammer, Arabella Allen, Job Trotter, Sam Weller, Alfred Jingle, Mr. Wardle, Mr. Dodson, Samuel Pickwick, Rachael Wardle, Tony Weller
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Classic Literature, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 29007
publisher: Modern Library