The book deals with the unbridled follies of a government executive who had sudden and frequent bouts of idiosyncrasies in discharging his official responsibilities.The varied experience of Pigwick in handling the problem of unemployment came to the attention of the Ministers. Therefore the government searching for a competent hand appointed him as Labor Commissioner. On taking over as Labor Commissioner he continued his frenzy of innovations in the new portfolio. Multifaceted personality development, a feature with the really brilliant men, manifested as versatile incompetence in his case....