The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton

Charles Dickens's first novel, "The Pickwick Papers" revolves around the novel's main character and founder of The Pickwick Club, Samuel Pickwick and his suggestion that he and other "Pickwickians" travel to locations outside of London and report their findings. A sequence of loosely related adventures set between 1827-8, it became the first real publishing phenomenon and is responsible for catapulting Dickens into international fame. A classic example of Dickens's acclaimed fiction not to ...