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The Pickwick Papers

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The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers - a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle and, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, and his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtors' prison, characters and incidents spring to life from Dickens's pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention.

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Table of Contents CHAPTER I. THE PICKWICKIANS CHAPTER II. THE FIRST DAY’S JOURNEY, AND THE FIRST EVENING’S ADVENTURES; WITH THEIR CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER III. A NEW ACQUAINTANCE—THE STROLLER’S TALE; A DISAGREEABLE INTERRUPTION, AND AN UNPLEASANT ENCOUNTER CHAPTER IV. A FIELD DAY AND BIVOUAC—MORE NEW FRIENDS CHAPTER V. A SHORT ONE—SHOWING, AMONG OTHER MATTERS CHAPTER VI. AN OLD-FASHIONED CARD-PARTY—THE CLERGYMAN’S VERSES CHAPTER VII. HOW MR. WINKLE, INSTEAD OF SHOOTING AT THE PIGEON CHAPTER VIII. STRONGLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE POSITION CHAPTER IX. A DISCOVERY AND A CHASE CHAPTER X. CLEARING UP ALL DOUBTS (IF ANY EXISTED) CHAPTER XI. INVOLVING ANOTHER JOURNEY, AND AN ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY CHAPTER XII. DESCRIPTIVE OF A VERY IMPORTANT PROCEEDING CHAPTER XIII. SOME ACCOUNT OF EATANSWILL; OF THE STATE OF PARTIES CHAPTER XIV. COMPRISING A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE COMPANY CHAPTER XV. IN WHICH IS GIVEN A FAITHFUL PORTRAITURE CHAPTER XVI. TOO FULL OF ADVENTURE TO BE BRIEFLY DESCRIBED CHAPTER XVII. SHOWING THAT AN ATTACK OF RHEUMATISM CHAPTER XVIII. BRIEFLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF TWO POINTS CHAPTER XIX. A PLEASANT DAY WITH AN UNPLEASANT TERMINATION CHAPTER XX. SHOWING HOW DODSON AND FOGG WERE MEN OF BUSINESS CHAPTER XXI. IN WHICH THE OLD MAN LAUNCHES FORTH CHAPTER XXII. MR. PICKWICK JOURNEYS TO IPSWICH AND MEETS WITH A ROMANTIC CHAPTER XXIII. IN WHICH MR. SAMUEL WELLER BEGINS TO DEVOTE HIS ENERGIES CHAPTER XXIV. WHEREIN MR. PETER MAGNUS GROWS JEALOUS CHAPTER XXV. SHOWING, AMONG A VARIETY OF PLEASANT MATTERS, HOW MAJESTIC CHAPTER XXVI. WHICH CONTAINS A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PROGRESS CHAPTER XXVII. SAMUEL WELLER MAKES A PILGRIMAGE TO DORKING CHAPTER XXVIII. A GOOD-HUMOURED CHRISTMAS CHAPTER CHAPTER XXIX. THE STORY OF THE GOBLINS WHO STOLE A SEXTON CHAPTER XXX. HOW THE PICKWICKIANS MADE AND CULTIVATED THE ACQUAINTANCE CHAPTER XXXI. WHICH IS ALL ABOUT THE LAW, AND SUNDRY GREAT AUTHORITIES CHAPTER XXXII. DESCRIBES, FAR MORE FULLY THAN THE COURT NEWSMAN EVER CHAPTER XXXIII. MR. WELLER THE ELDER DELIVERS SOME CRITICAL SENTIMENTS CHAPTER XXXIV. IS WHOLLY DEVOTED TO A FULL AND FAITHFUL REPORT CHAPTER XXXV. IN WHICH MR. PICKWICK THINKS HE HAD BETTER GO TO BATH CHAPTER XXXVI. THE CHIEF FEATURES OF WHICH WILL BE FOUND CHAPTER XXXVII. HONOURABLY ACCOUNTS FOR MR. WELLER’S ABSENCE CHAPTER XXXVIII. HOW MR. WINKLE, WHEN HE STEPPED OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN CHAPTER XXXIX. MR. SAMUEL WELLER, BEING INTRUSTED WITH A MISSION CHAPTER XL. INTRODUCES MR. PICKWICK TO A NEW AND NOT UNINTERESTING SCENE CHAPTER XLI. WHAT BEFELL MR. PICKWICK WHEN HE GOT INTO THE FLEET CHAPTER XLII. ILLUSTRATIVE, LIKE THE PRECEDING ONE, OF THE OLD PROVERB CHAPTER XLIII. SHOWING HOW Mr. SAMUEL WELLER GOT INTO DIFFICULTIES CHAPTER LXIV. TREATS OF DIVERS LITTLE MATTERS WHICH OCCURRED CHAPTER XLIV. DESCRIPTIVE OF AN AFFECTING INTERVIEW CHAPTER XLVI. RECORDS A TOUCHING ACT OF DELICATE FEELING CHAPTER XLVII. IS CHIEFLY DEVOTED TO MATTERS OF BUSINESS CHAPTER XLVIII. RELATES HOW MR. PICKWICK, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF SAMUEL CHAPTER XLIX. CONTAINING THE STORY OF THE BAGMAN’S UNCLE CHAPTER L. HOW MR. PICKWICK SPED UPON HIS MISSION CHAPTER LI. IN WHICH MR. PICKWICK ENCOUNTERS AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE CHAPTER LII. INVOLVING A SERIOUS CHANGE IN THE WELLER FAMILY CHAPTER LIII. COMPRISING THE FINAL EXIT OF MR. JINGLE AND JOB TROTTER CHAPTER LIV. CONTAINING SOME PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO THE DOUBLE KNOCK CHAPTER LV. MR. SOLOMON PELL, ASSISTED BY A SELECT COMMITTEE CHAPTER LVI. AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE TAKES PLACE CHAPTER LVII. IN WHICH THE PICKWICK CLUB IS FINALLY DISSOLVED

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