The Posthumous Notes of the Pickwick Club is the first novel by English writer Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman and Hall between 1836 and 1837. Instead of writing an accompanying text to a series of pictures by illustrator Robert Seymour at the suggestion of publisher William Hall, Dickens created a novel about a club traveling around England and observing "human nature". This idea allowed the writer to depict in his work the mores of old England and diversity (temperaments) in the tradition of Ben Johnson. The image of Mr. Pickwick, a charming ridiculous eccentric, has long acquired literary immortality along with Don Quixote, Tartuffe and Khlestakov. This funny, full of great English humor story about pretty gentlemen is loved by readers around the world. Illustrations by Robert Seymour and "Thesis" (X.) N. Brown). Comments by Evgeny Lanna.