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The Pickwick Papers

✒ Author
📖 Pages1387
⏰ Reading time 51 hours 45 minutes
💡 Originally published1837
🌏 Original language English
📌 Type Novels
📌 Genres Psychological, Realism, Satire, irony, Social, Ironic
📌 Sections Psychological novel , Realistic novel , Social novel

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Chapter I - The Pickwickians1
Chapter II - The First Day's Journey and the First Evening's Adventures8
Chapter III - A New Acquaintance, The Stroller's Tale56
Chapter IV - A Field Day and Bivouac, More New Friends77
Chapter V - How Mr. Pickwick Undertook to Drive98
Chapter VI - An Old-Fashioned Card-Party, The Clergyman's Verses117
Chapter VII - How Mr. Winkle, Instead of Shooting at a Pigeon141
Chapter VIII - Strongly Illustrative of the Position165
Chapter IX - A Discovery and a Chase187
Chapter X - Clearing Up All Doubts203
Chapter XI - Involving Another Journey, and an Antiquarian Discovery227
Chapter XII - Descriptive of a Very Important Proceeding259
Chapter XIII - Some Account of Eatanswill271
Chapter XIV - Comprising a Brief Description at the Peacock Assembled301
Chapter XV - In Which Is Given a Faithful Portraiture331
Chapter XVI - Too Full of Adventure to Be Briefly Described355
Chapter XVII - Showing That an Attack of Rheumatism389
Chapter XVIII - Briefly Illustrative of Two Points401
Chapter XIX - A Pleasant Day with an Unpleasant Termination420
Chapter XX - Showing How Dodson and Fogg Were Men of Business445
Chapter XXI - In Which the Old Man Launches Forth Into His Favourite Theme475
Chapter XXII - Mr. Pickwick Journeys to Ipswich and Meets with a Romantic Adventure503
Chapter XXIII - In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies531
Chapter XXIV - Wherein Mr. Peter Magnus Grows Jealous546
Chapter XXV - Showing, Among a Variety of Pleasant Matters573
Chapter XXVI - Which Contains a Brief Account of the Progress609
Chapter XXVII - Samuel Weller Makes a Pilgrimmage to Dorking621
Chapter XXVIII - A Good-Humoured Christmas Chapter639
Chapter XXIX - The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton672
Chapter XXX - How the Pickwickians Made and Cultivated an Acquaintance690
Chapter XXXI - Which Is All About the Law710
Chapter XXXII - Describes Far More Fully Than the Newsman Ever Did736
Chapter XXXIII - Mr. Weller the Elder Delivers Some Critical Sentiments761
Chapter XXXIV - Is Wholly Devoted to a Full and Faithful Report790
Chapter XXXV - In Which Mr. Pickwick Thinks He Had Better Go to Bath831
Chapter XXXVI - The Chief Features of Which Will Be Found to Be an Authentic Version859
Chapter XXXVII - Honourably Accounts for Mr. Weller's Absence880
Chapter XXXVIII - How Mr. Winkle, When He Stepped Out of the Frying-Pan905
Chapter XXXIX - Mr. Samuel Weller, Being Intrusted with a Mission of Love930
Chapter XL - Introduces Mr. Pickwick to a New and Not Uninteresting Scene959
Chapter XLI - What Befell Mr. Pickwick When He Fell Into the Fleet982
Chapter XLII - Illustrative, Like the Preceding One, of the Old Proverb1004
Chapter XLIII - Showing How Mr. Samuel Weller Got Into Difficulties1032
Chapter XLIV - Treats of Divers Little Matters Which Occurred in the Fleet1058
Chapter XLV - Descriptive of an Affecting Interview Between Mr. Samuel Weller and a Family Party1081
Chapter XLVI - Records a Touching Act of Delicate Feeling1111
Chapter XLVII - Is Chiefly Devoted to Matters of Business1130
Chapter XLVIII - Relates How Mr. Pickwick, with the Assistance of Samuel Weller1151
Chapter XLIX - Containing the Story of the Bagman's Uncle1175
Chapter L - How Mr. Pickwick Sped Upon His Mission1203
Chapter LI - In Which Mr. Pickwick Encounters an Old Acquaintance1230
Chapter LII - Involving a Serious Change in the Weller Family1257
Chapter LIII - Comprising the Final Exit of Mr. Jingle and Job Trotter1278
Chapter LIV - Containing Some Particulars Relative to the Double Knock1303
Chapter LV - Mr. Solomon Pell, Assisted by a Select Committee of Coachmen1330
Chapter LVI - An Important Conference Takes Place1353
Chapter LVII - In Which the Pickwick Club is Finally Dissolved1376

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Chapter I - The Pickwickians

The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, is derived from the perusal of the following entry in the Transactions of the Pickwick Club, which the editor of these papers feels the highest pleasure in laying before his readers, as a proof of the careful attention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination, with which his search among the multifarious documents confided to him has been conducted.
‘May 12, 1827. Joseph Smiggers, Esq., P.V.P.M.P.C. [Perpetual Vice-President — Member Pickwick Club], presiding. The following resolutions unanimously agreed to: —
‘That this Association has heard read, with feelings of unmingled satisfaction, and unqualified approval, the paper communicated by Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C. [General Chairman — Member Pickwick Club], entitled “Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, with some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats;” and that this Association does hereby return its warmest thanks to the said Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., for the same.
‘That while this Association is deeply sensible of the advantages which must accrue to the cause of science, from the production to which they have just adverted — no less than from the unwearied researches of Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., in Hornsey, Highgate, Brixton, and Camberwell — they cannot but entertain a lively sense of the inestimable benefits which must inevitably result from carrying the speculations of that learned man into a wider field, from extending his travels, and, consequently, enlarging his sphere of observation, to the advancement of knowledge, and the diffusion of learning.
‘That, with the view just mentioned, this Association has taken into its serious consideration a proposal, emanating from the aforesaid, Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., and three other Pickwickians hereinafter named, for forming a new branch of United Pickwickians, under the title of The Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club.
‘That the said proposal has received the sanction and approval of this Association.
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