The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (1836) Ill. Gordon Ross

A friend of mine said he started it and just put it down; I'm not that easily discouraged.

However... it is not an easy go; it takes a lot of twists and starts all over the place but eventually settles down.

As a series publication turned into a book it has that sort of feel.

Superb insights into politics; Absolutely describes horrid partisan politics tha could have been written yesterday!

Its a story of some well to do's and their mis-adventures in travels

I have this perfect condition 1938 Heritage pressing

Great inspirations:
‘You think so now,’ said Mr. Weller, with the gravity of age, ‘but you’ll find that as you get vider, you’ll get viser. Vidth and visdom, Sammy, alvays grows together.’

And too:
It is the fate of a lonely old man, that those about him should form new and different attachments and leave him. I have no right to expect that it should be otherwise with me.