The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens first novel and became a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass the lover Tupman the sportsman Winkle & above all by that quintessentially English Quixote Mr. Pickwick & his cockney Sancho Panza Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election via the Fleet debtor’s prison characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour & literary invention.