Excerpt from The Novels and Tales of Charles Dickens, (Boz.), Vol. 1 of 3: Containing the Pickwick Papers, And, the Old Curiosity Shop It is obvious that in a work published with a view to such considerations, no artfully interwoven or ingeniously complicated plot can with reason he expected. The author ventures to express a hope that he has successfully surmounted the difficulties of his undertaking. And if it be objected to the Pickwick Papers. That they are a mere series of adventures, in which the scenes are ever changing, and the characters come and go like the men and women we encounter in the real world, he can only content himself with the reflection, that they claim to be nothing else, and that the same objection has been made to the works of some of the greatest novelists in the English language.

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