The high-spirited work of a young Dickens, this book is the remarkable first novel that made its author famous and has remained one of the best-known books in the world. In it the inimitable Samuel Pickwick, his well-fed body and unsinkable good spirits clad in tights and garters, sallies forth through the noisy streets of London and into the colorful country of rural England for a picaresque series of sparkling encounters with love and misadventure. From the wit of cockney bootback Sam Weller to the unforgettable Fat Boy and rascals like the amorous Mr. Jingle and the unscrupulous lawyers Dodson and Fogg. This book reels with joyous fantasy, infectious good humor, and a touch of the macabre--a classic work that G.K. Chesterton called 'the great example of everything that make Dickens great...(a) supreme masterpiece.'
