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1836年《匹克威克外传》按月分期出版后,它的出版商很快就气恼地发现,不少滑头的家伙都挖空心思以不算违法的手段来夺走他们的市场。大小书店中出现了各种各样的《匹克威克外传》的连载本。它们极力摹仿原作。除极少数行家外,一般人不易看穿其中的把戏。每天都有不少人到斯特兰街186号,向店员询问一个笔名波斯的人写的《匹克威克别传》是不是狄更斯所作;还有人问怎么在有的书店里可以买到一个便士一期的《匹克威克》(出版社定价每期十二便士)。当时对改编剧本版权并无规定,因此舞台上出现了各种胡改乱编的《匹克威克》。这使狄更斯很是生气,出版商自然也损失不少。在这方面最为厚颜无耻的,是个名叫威廉·蒙克利夫的
After the month-long publication of The Pickwick Gag was launched in 1836, publishers quickly found it annoying that many slippery guys had dared to take their market illegally. The size of the bookstore appeared in a variety of “Pickwick Biography” serialized. They tried hard to copy the original. With the exception of a handful of experts, most people are not easy to see through the trick. Every day there are many people to Strand Street, No. 186, to the clerk asked a man named Persian wrote “Pickwick Biography” is not made by Charles; others asked how in some bookstores can buy a penny Period of “Pickwick” (publishers priced twelve pence each period). At that time, there was no regulation on the adaptation of the script, so there appeared “Pickwick” on the stage. This makes Dickens very angry, the publisher naturally lost a lot. The most shameless in this regard is William Moncrieff