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952 pages. cover worn, text tannedCharles Dickens's satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the y oung writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836-37. It recou nts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief. Laugh-out-loud funny and endl essly entertaining, the book also reveals Dickens's burgeoning interest in the p arliamentary system, lawyers, the Poor Laws, and the ills of debtors' prisons. A s G. K. Chesterton noted, Before ÝDickens ? wrote a single real story, he had a kind of vision . . . a map full of fantastic towns, thundering coaches, clamo rous market-places, uproarious inns, strange and swaggering figures. That vision was Pickwick.