The novel “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club” was enthusiastically received by the reading public from the moment it was published. A comic epic at the center of which is the indefatigable English Don Quixote—an eccentric, naive, and touching Mr. Pickwick. This hero, like the writer himself, had enough unexpected accidents in life, not to mention his close acquaintance with prison, the courts, coaching inns, and parliamentary debates.
“The Pickwick Club” immediately elevated Dickens to the heights of literary fame.
And it was from this novel—and its rosy, stout main character—that the brilliant career began for the one whose place in literature readers defined with the concise laconicism typical of the English nation, awarding him the nickname “The Inimitable” (“Неподражаемый”).