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That vision was Pickwick.. a map full of fantastic towns, thundering coaches, clamorous market-places, uproarious inns, strange and swaggering figures. . .
Chesterton noted, Before Dickens] wrote a single real story, he had a kind of vision .
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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.
It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief.
But can Pickwick retain his good will towards his fellow humans once he discovers the evils of the world? Charles Dickens\'s satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers , catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836-37.
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.
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.
In this classic social commentary from Dickens, Mr
