2016-03-31 Thu

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is Charles Dickens's first novel.

Dickens was asked to contribute to a projected series of "cockney sporting plates", illustrated by Robert Seymour, by the London publishers, Messrs. Chapman and Hall. However, Dickens’ whimsical stories about the kindly Samuel Pickwick and his fellow club members soon became popular in their own right. ‘The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club’, by 24-year-old writer Charles Dickens, were published under his pseudonym Boz.

The Pickwick Papers is a sequence of loosely-related adventures of Mr. Pickwick, the lead character and his three friends, who travel places remote from London and report on their findings to the other members of the club.

In 1970, a 5 pence stamp depicting Mr. Pickwick and Sam was released by Britain. Further, to celebrate the bicentenary of Dickens’ birth, Royal Mail released ten new stamps celebrating his life and work on 19 June 2012. One amongst the ten features the famous round-faced Mr. Pickwick on them.