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The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens chronicles the adventures of the Pickwick Club, led by Mr. Pickwick, as they travel around England, encountering a variety of humorous and challenging situations, often involving misunderstandings, legal battles, and romantic misadventures. Themes explored include the flaws of the justice system, friendship, loyalty, and the broadening effect of travel. This text features discussions of sexual assault, enslavement, suicide, abduction, domestic abuse, racial and ethnic slurs, sexism, racism, antisemitism, fatphobia, and xenophobia.