The Pickwick Papers

Dickens's first novel follows the comic adventures of a band of men as they journey around nineteenth-century England.

Set in the early nineteenth century, The Pickwick Papers follows well-off gentleman Samuel Pickwick, who forms a club with three friends. Their goal is to travel through the English countryside by coach, observing the world beyond London and staying at inns along the way.

The reader follows Pickwick and his pals—less-than-skillful sportsman Nathaniel Winkle; self-proclaimed ...