Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers, twenty-four-year-old Dickens's joyful, rumbustious debut, made him an overnight sensation. The collected anecdotes from the fictional Pickwick Club - whose members include the poet Snodgrass, the romantic Tupman, Winkle the sportsman and the relentlessly cheerful Pickwick along with his immensely popular cockney sidekick Sam Weller - these adventures take readers from the comic delights of the cricket club to debtors' jail by way of drunkenness, feasting and the immortal Fat Boy.