THE ATHENAEUMThe Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens
Comedy
The Pickwick Papers
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textDickens’s first novel, which came out in monthly parts in 1836 and 1837: Mr Pickwick and three members of his club travel about England and report what they see. It sold slowly until Sam Weller, the cockney who becomes Mr Pickwick’s servant, came into it in the fourth number, and then it sold in tens of thousands. Its first chapter records the Club’s thanks for Mr Pickwick’s paper on the theory of tittlebats.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 20 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- The Room of Books Within Books
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #580. In the public domain in the United States.