The Pickwick Papers (also known as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club) was Charles Dickens's first novel. And this novel is a sequence of loosely related adventures written for serialization in a periodical.
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”
― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
A great hokey-cokey of eccentrics, conmen, phony politicians, amorous widows, and wily, witty servants, somehow catching an essence of what it is to be English, celebrating companionship, generosity, good nature, in the figure of Samuel Pickwick, Esq, one of the great embodiments in the literature of benevolence.
— Actor and director Simon Callow
