The Pickwick Papers

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Contents

1. 01The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
2. 02Chapter I. The Pickwickians
3. 03Chapter II. The First Day’s Journey, and the First Evening’s Adventures; with Their Consequences
4. 04Chapter III. A New Acquaintance—The Stroller’s Tale—A Disagreeable Interruption, and an Unpleasant Encounter
5. 05Chapter IV. A Field Day and Bivouac—More New Friends—An Invitation to the Country
6. 06Chapter V. A Short One—Showing, Among Other Matters, How Mr. Pickwick Undertook to Drive, and Mr. Winkle to Ride, and How They Both Did It
7. 07Chapter VI. An Old-Fashioned Card-Party—The Clergyman’s Verses—The Story of the Convict’s Return
8. 08Chapter VII. How Mr. Winkle, Instead of Shooting at the Pigeon and Killing the Crow, Shot at the Crow and Wounded the Pigeon; How the Dingley Dell Cricket Club Played All-Muggleton, and How All-Muggle
9. 09Chapter VIII. Strongly Illustrative of the Position, That the Course of True Love Is Not a Railway
10. 10Chapter IX. A Discovery and a Chase
11. 11Chapter X. Clearing Up All Doubts (If Any Existed) of the Disinterestedness of Mr. A. Jingle’s Character
12. 12Chapter XI. Involving Another Journey, and an Antiquarian Discovery; Recording Mr. Pickwick’s Determination to Be Present at an Election; and Containing a Manuscript of the Old Clergyman’s
13. 13Chapter XII. Descriptive of a Very Important Proceeding on the Part of Mr. Pickwick; No Less an Epoch in His Life, Than in This History
14. 14Chapter XIII. Some Account of Eatanswill; of the State of Parties Therein; and of the Election of a Member to Serve in Parliament for That Ancient, Loyal, and Patriotic Borough
15. 15Chapter XIV. Comprising a Brief Description of the Company at the Peacock Assembled; and a Tale Told by a Bagman
16. 16Chapter XV. In Which Is Given a Faithful Portraiture of Two Distinguished Persons; and an Accurate Description of a Public Breakfast in Their House and Grounds: Which Public Breakfast Leads to the Rec
17. 17Chapter XVI. Too Full of Adventure to Be Briefly Described
18. 18Chapter XVII. Showing That an Attack of Rheumatism, in Some Cases, Acts as a Quickener to Inventive Genius
19. 19Chapter XVIII. Briefly Illustrative of Two Points; First, the Power of Hysterics, and, Secondly, the Force of Circumstances
20. 20Chapter XIX. A Pleasant Day with an Unpleasant Termination
21. 21Chapter XX. Showing How Dodson and Fogg Were Men of Business, and Their Clerks Men of Pleasure; and How an Affecting Interview Took Place Between Mr. Weller and His Long-Lost Parent; Showing Also What
22. 22Chapter XXI. In Which the Old Man Launches Forth Into His Favourite Theme, and Relates a Story About a Queer Client
23. 23Chapter XXII. Mr. Pickwick Journeys to Ipswich and Meets with a Romantic Adventure with a Middle-Aged Lady in Yellow Curl-Papers
24. 24Chapter XXIII. In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies to the Return Match Between Himself and Mr. Trotter
25. 25Chapter XXIV. Wherein Mr. Peter Magnus Grows Jealous, and the Middle-Aged Lady Apprehensive, Which Brings the Pickwickians Within the Grasp of the Law
26. 26Chapter XXV. Showing, Among a Variety of Pleasant Matters, How Majestic and Impartial Mr. Nupkins Was; and How Mr. Weller Returned Mr. Job Trotter’s Shuttlecock as Heavily as It Came—With Another Matt
27. 27Chapter XXVI. Which Contains a Brief Account of the Progress of the Action of Bardell Against Pickwick
28. 28Chapter XXVII. Samuel Weller Makes a Pilgrimage to Dorking, and Beholds His Mother-in-Law
29. 29Chapter XXVIII. A Good-Humoured Christmas Chapter, Containing an Account of a Wedding, and Some Other Sports Beside: Which Although in Their Way, Even as Good Customs as Marriage Itself, Are Not Quite
30. 30Chapter XXIX. The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton
31. 31Chapter XXX. How the Pickwickians Made and Cultivated the Acquaintance of a Couple of Nice Young Men Belonging to One of the Liberal Professions; How They Disported Themselves on the Ice; and How Thei
32. 32Chapter XXXI. Which Is All About the Law, and Sundry Great Authorities Learned Therein
33. 33Chapter XXXII. Describes, Far More Fully Than the Court Newsman Ever Did, a Bachelor’s Party, Given by Mr. Bob Sawyer at His Lodgings in the Borough
34. 34Chapter XXXIII. Mr. Weller the Elder Delivers Some Critical Sentiments Respecting Literary Composition; and, Assisted by His Son Samuel, Pays a Small Instalment of Retaliation to the Account of the Re
35. 35Chapter XXXIV. Is Wholly Devoted to a Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell Against Pickwick
36. 36Chapter XXXV. In Which Mr. Pickwick Thinks He Had Better Go to Bath; and Goes Accordingly
37. 37Chapter XXXVI. The Chief Features of Which Will Be Found to Be an Authentic Version of the Legend of Prince Bladud, and a Most Extraordinary Calamity That Befell Mr. Winkle
38. 38Chapter XXXVII. Honourably Accounts for Mr. Weller’s Absence, by Describing a Soiree to Which He Was Invited and Went; Also Relates How He Was Entrusted by Mr. Pickwick with a Private Mission of Delic
39. 39Chapter XXXVIII. How Mr. Winkle, When He Stepped Out of the Frying-Pan, Walked Gently and Comfortably Into the Fire
40. 40Chapter XXXIX. Mr. Samuel Weller, Being Intrusted with a Mission of Love, Proceeds to Execute It; with What Success Will Hereinafter Appear
41. 41Chapter XL. Introduces Mr. Pickwick to a New and Not Uninteresting Scene in the Great Drama of Life
42. 42Chapter XLI. What Befell Mr. Pickwick When He Got Into the Fleet; What Prisoners He Saw There, and How He Passed the Night
43. 43Chapter XLII. Illustrative, Like the Preceding One, of the Old Proverb, That Adversity Brings a Man Acquainted with Strange Bedfellows— Likewise Containing Mr. Pickwick’s Extraordinary and Startling A
44. 44Chapter XLIII. Showing How Mr. Samuel Weller Got Into Difficulties
45. 45Chapter XLIV. Treats of Divers Little Matters Which Occurred in the Fleet, and of Mr. Winkle’s Mysterious Behaviour; and Shows How the Poor Chancery Prisoner Obtained His Release at Last
46. 46Chapter XLV. Descriptive of an Affecting Interview Between Mr. Samuel Weller and a Family Party. Mr. Pickwick Makes a Tour of the Diminutive World He Inhabits, and Resolves to MIX with It, in Future,
47. 47Chapter XLVI. Records a Touching Act of Delicate Feeling, Not Unmixed with Pleasantry, Achieved and Performed by Messrs. Dodson and Fogg
48. 48Chapter XLVII. Is Chiefly Devoted to Matters of Business, and the Temporal Advantage of Dodson and Fogg—Mr. Winkle Reappears Under Extraordinary Circumstances—Mr. Pickwick’s Benevolence Proves Stronge
49. 49Chapter XLVIII. Relates How Mr. Pickwick, with the Assistance of Samuel Weller, Essayed to Soften the Heart of Mr. Benjamin Allen, and to Mollify the Wrath of Mr. Robert Sawyer
50. 50Chapter XLIX. Containing the Story of the Bagman’s Uncle
51. 51Chapter L. How Mr. Pickwick Sped Upon His Mission, and How He Was Reinforced in the Outset by a Most Unexpected Auxiliary
52. 52Chapter LI. In Which Mr. Pickwick Encounters an Old Acquaintance—To Which Fortunate Circumstance the Reader Is Mainly Indebted for Matter of Thrilling Interest Herein Set Down, Concerning Two Great Pu
53. 53Chapter LII. Involving a Serious Change in the Weller Family, and the Untimely Downfall of Mr. Stiggins
54. 54Chapter LIII. Comprising the Final Exit of Mr. Jingle and Job Trotter, with a Great Morning of Business in Gray’s Inn Square—Concluding with a Double Knock at Mr. Perker’s Door
55. 55Chapter LIV. Containing Some Particulars Relative to the Double Knock, and Other Matters: Among Which Certain Interesting Disclosures Relative to Mr. Snodgrass and a Young Lady Are by No Means Irrelev
56. 56Chapter LV. Mr. Solomon Pell, Assisted by a Select Committee of Coachmen, Arranges the Affairs of the Elder Mr. Weller
57. 57Chapter LVI. An Important Conference Takes Place Between Mr. Pickwick and Samuel Weller, at Which His Parent Assists—An Old Gentleman in a Snuff-Coloured Suit Arrives Unexpectedly
58. 58Chapter LVII. In Which the Pickwick Club Is Finally Dissolved, and Everything Concluded to the Satisfaction of Everybody

About this edition

Author

Charles Dickens

Era

Modern (c. 1800–1945)

Reading level

Intermediate: some philosophy helps

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Length

665 pages

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Modern Philosophers