Years pass, tastes change, but nothing can overshadow the brilliant image of the enthusiastic and naive eccentric Mr. Pickwick - the fruit of the fiction of the classic of world literature Charles Dickens. He paints old England from its most diverse sides, glorifying either its good nature, or its abundance in her living and sympathetic forces that chained to her the best sons of the petty bourgeoisie. He portrays old England in the most good-natured, optimistic, noble old eccentric, whose name - Mr. Pickwick - has established itself in world literature somewhere not far from the great name of Don Quixote. The novel "The Grave Notes of the Pickwick Club" is a favorite book of many generations of readers and personifies in their eyes classical England of the century before last.