MR. TONY WELLER, when Mr. Pickwick praised the intelligence of his son Samuel, expressed his pleasure at the compliment as something which reflected honor on himself. “I took,” he said, “ a great deal ...

Anyone who has read the Anne of Green Gables series (bear with me, men) might remember the chapter midway through Anne of the Island when Gilbert Blythe first proposes to Anne. It’s terribly exciting ...

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find. In the course of their travels, they repeatedly encounter ...

ONE hundred years ago, March 1836, a thin green paper-covered pamphlet called No. 1 of the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was offered to a quite indifferent London reading public. Humble and ...

Fury has erupted over plans to build 150 new homes next to a sleepy English village which inspired Charles Dickens' first novel The Pickwick Papers. Developers want to construct the properties north ...

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