The Pickwick Papers [Hardcover]

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InThe Pickwick Paperswe are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language but to some of fictions most endearing and memorable characters, starting with the illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded Samuel Pickwick himself. It is a rollicking tour de force through an England on the brink of the Victorian era. Reform of government, justice and commercial life are imminent, as are rail travel, social convulsion and the death of deference, but Pickwick sails through on a tide of delirious adventure, fortifying us for the future - whatever it throws at us.

Illustrated by H. K. Browne Phiz, with an afterword by Ned Halley.

Charles Dickens's first novel and comic masterpieceCharles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth, where his father worked as a clerk. Living in London in 1824, Dickens was sent by his family to work in a blacking-warehouse, and his father was arrested and imprisoned for debt. Fortunes improved and Dickens returned to school, eventually becoming a parliamentary reporter. His first piece of fiction was published by a magazine in December 1832, and by 1836 he had begun his first novel,The Pickwick Papers. He focused his career on writing, completing fourteen highly successful novels, as well as penning journalism, shorter fiction and travel books. He died in 1870.