Gustav Shpet’s commentary on Charles Dickens’s novel “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club,” compiled in 1934, has not lost its historical and literary significance to this day, because, having set out to introduce his compatriots into the artistic world of Dickens, the highly erudite philosopher and the polyglot created a unique guide to England in the first third of the 19th century. The fate of the Commentary was affected by the tragic fate of the author, who was executed in 1940. The reissue of the Commentary is a tribute to the memory of a remarkable scientist, but at the same time it is also a “discovery” of the immortal work of the great English classic to the modern reader.