The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

"The Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens is a novel serialized from March 1836 to November 1837. It follows the kindly gentleman Samuel Pickwick and three companions as they journey through the English countryside, reporting their adventures to their club. Their travels lead to comic misadventures, colorful characters like the clever servant Sam Weller and the charlatan Alfred Jingle, and an infamous legal case that lands Pickwick in debtors' prison. This publishing phenomenon popularized serialized fiction and defined modern entertainment. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Title The Pickwick Papers
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers
Credits Jo Churcher and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 71.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Humorous stories
Subject England -- Fiction
Subject Men -- Societies and clubs -- Fiction
Subject Male friendship -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 580
Release Date
Last Update Jan 11, 2026
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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