Pickwick Papers (AmazonClassics Edition), The

Samuel Pickwick, founder and chairman of the Pickwick Club, engages three fellow members to accompany him on a journey. By coach they’ll travel to the outreaches of London to explore, observe, and report back on the quaint wonders of the English countryside. What transpires is a picaresque romp of misadventures, hair-raising challenges, and romantic follies entangling the fates of a riot of colorful characters—a passel of villains, spinsters, poets, and sportsmen—and the unworldly Pickwick himself, who has much to learn about life outside his gentleman’s club.

At once a slapstick farce and whip-smart social satire, Charles Dickens’s debut was a publishing phenomenon that catapulted its author into inimitable fame.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Pickwick Papers, this edition of The Pickwick Papers (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.