The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
By: Charles Dickens ; introduction by Christopher Hibbert ; drawings by Charles Keeping
Publisher: Folio Society
Published: 1981
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 740
Subjects: Clubs; Fiction; Men; Societies and clubs; English fictions
Other titles: Pickwick papers
Work titles: Pickwick papers
Description: 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?