Mr Pickwick and his companions journey round the country, to report on the character of its populace. Their high notions and even higher ambitions are tested by con-men, deaf old matrons, servants, landladies, jailers and many others that complete the picture of Britannia the way Hogarth might have painted it: raucous and cheeky, but ultimately bound together by a sense of fair play. Period 1830s

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