NOW, READ IT AGAIN

摘要

Above the table on which I'm now writing hangs an old framed print showing Mr. Pickwick's street-smart servant, Sam Weller, prophetically pointing out to his chubby little master-in tights, gaiters, and spectacles-a vast, teeming mob of tiny figures: the characters Charles Dickens was to create in the novels to come after The PickwickPapers.