The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" was the first novel produced by the seminal English author Charles Dickens. Originally published as a serial, it is a series of semi-related adventures based around Samuel Pickwick, a benevolent and moneyed old gentleman who founded the Pickwick Club. This humorous and masterful novel will appeal to fans of Dickens' work, and would make for a great addition to any collection. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was an English author widely considered to be the most important novelist of the Victorian era. Many classic books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.