Guy R. Williams, Charles Dickens, William-Alan Landes - Mr. Pickwick's Promise: Bardell Against Pickwick The Story of a Law Suit

Dickens's first novel, serialized in 1836 and 1837, is a loosely structured series of comic travelers' tales--this is one of them--following Samuel Pickwick and his three friends to various towns around England. The book is renowned for its easy good humor and rich cast of characters, but it is nevertheless not without a touch of Dickens's characteristic social criticism, which would become much more pronounced in his later novels. Minimize