The Pickwick papers ([Rev. ed.])

In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write `a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates.

Thus the Pickwick Club was born: its supposed `papers' soom outgrew their origins and became a brilliantly comic novel, still among Dicken's most popular works.

This book is intended for general; courses on early 19th-century English novel; courses specifically on Dickens