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ritten for publication as a serial, The Pickwick Papers is a sequence of related adventures. The novel's main character, Samuel Pickwick, is a kind and rich old gentleman, the founder, and president of the Pickwick Club. To extend his researches into the curious of human nature, he and three other "Pickwickians" (Mr. Nathaniel Winkle, Mr. Augustus Snodgrass, and Mr. Tracy Tupman) travel to places remote from London and report their findings to the other members of the club. Their travels in the English countryside are the principal topics of the novel.
Alfred Jingle, who joins the cast in chapter two, provides a figure of comic villainy, with his different actions provocates that the Pickwickians into trouble. These include a failed intention of eloping with the beautiful Rachael Wardle of the manor farm, discord with Dr. Slammer, the Fleet prison, and others.
The humor is provided in the comic when Sam Weller makes his apparition in chapter 10 of the novel. First seen working at the White Hart Inn in The Borough, Weller is taken on by Mr. Pickwick as a personal servant and companion on his travels.
Other notable adventures include Mr. Pickwick's attempts to the court to defend himself for, Mrs. Bardell, who (through an apparent misunderstanding on her part) is suing him for breach a marriage promise. Another is Mr. Pickwick's incarceration at Fleet Prison for his stubborn to pay the compensation to her because he doesn't want to give money to Mrs. Bardell's lawyers Dodson and Fogg.
Finally, the book shows how Pickwick after a lot of implores accepts to pay the compensation to Bardell and went out to the prison, attending to the wedding of Mr. Snodgrass and Emily, persuading the Winkle father and celebrating the last meeting of the Pickwick club.