The Pickwick Papers

Complete and unabridged, with 100 full-page plates by Richard Wilson, Joseph Vernet and George Morland. 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 the fourth numbe...