The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, a novel by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) first issued as a volume in 1837. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, general chairman of the Pickwick Club which he has founded, Messrs Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass, and Nathaniel Winkle, members of the club, are constituted a Corresponding Society of the Club to report to it their journeys and adventures, and observations of characters and manners. The Club serves to link a series of incidents and characters, without elaborate plot. After a slow start, the series achieved immense popularity, and Dickens embarked on a promising future, courted by publishers, admired by the public, and befriended by celebrities.