John Jorrocks, a prosperous grocer of Great Coram Street and devoted city sportsman, rides with the Surrey foxhounds, gets into trouble shooting, follows the staghounds, bets at Newmarket, takes the waters at Cheltenham, sails to Margate and crosses the Channel to try French ways, every outing a comic disaster.
The 1838 sporting comedy that is said to have inspired The Pickwick Papers, for lovers of English humour. Download the free EPUB.