Cover of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

1,230 pages~21 hrs

Four gentlemen, one stagecoach, and a thousand ways to find trouble.

Join the bumbling yet lovable Samuel Pickwick and his eccentric companions as they stumble through the mishaps and marvels of 19th-century England. This riotous collection of sketches captures the chaotic spirit of friendship and the absurdity of human nature in Dickens's most purely comedic masterpiece.

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