The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens’s first novel, the comic record of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and his fellow members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England, meeting the swindler Jingle, the cockney servant Sam Weller, and a breach-of-promise suit that lands Mr. Pickwick in the Fleet prison. It was first published in monthly parts in 1836–1837. This edition follows a public-domain English text of that book.