The Pickwick Papers and such denudational processes as

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a trained naturalist

and philosophy

dating from 1606 to 1865

and altogether unknown forces of darkness

The Pickwick Papers and such denudational processes asMr. Pickwick, a convivial old gentleman, resolves that he and three other "Pickwickians" Mr. Nathaniel Winkle, Mr. Augustus Snodgrass, and Mr. Tracy Tupman should travel beyond London to add to their experiences of the quaint and curious phenomena of life. The friends traverse the countryside of Georgian England, where their comic misadventures include an encounter with highwaymen, romantic entanglements, and a challenge to a duel. Best of all, they