The Pickwick Papers

Abstract

This humorous novel was originally born and a sequel, when the young and talented Dickens was commissioned in 1836 by a London publishing house to write an accompanying text to a picture series by the famous illustrator Robert Seymour. However, Dickens agreed with the publisher to change the original concept of the purely accompanying text. Thus, 57 chapters were gradually created with loosely captured stories from the journeys made in England by four members of the London Pickwick Club, Mr. Samuel Pickwick, who founded the club, poet and chronicler of the club Augustus Snodgrass, athlete and loser Nathaniel Winkle and women's lover Tracy Tuppman. From the 10th chapter onwards, the quartet is accompanied by the distinctive character of Samuel Weller, Mr. Pickwick's servant.