The Pickwick Papers

Complete and unabridged, with 24 full-page plates by George Morland, Richard Parkes Bonington and William Powell Frith. A retired gentleman of comfortable means founds a club to observe the manners of England and takes to the road with three companions, none of whom is equal to it. Dickens was twenty-four and writing to a monthly deadline around another man's engravings when Sam Weller arrived in ...