The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (The Oxford Illustrated Dickens)

xxiii, 801 pp. With forty-three illustrations by Seymour and "Phiz." "Samuel Pickwick is the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. He and his fellow Pickwickians travel to the far-flung corners of London in search of adventure – luckily for the gentlemen, amusement and hilarity are never in short supply. Along their way, they encounter plenty of characters – from villains who land them in deep trouble to one woman who sues Pickwick to force him into marriage, providing the Pickwickians with plenty of tales to entertain."