CHAPTER I | PAGE |
The Pickwickians | 1 |
CHAPTER II |
The First Day’s Journey, and the First Evening’s Adventures; with their Consequences | 7 |
CHAPTER III |
A New Acquaintance. The Stroller’s Tale. A Disagreeable Interruption, and an Unpleasant Encounter | 39 |
CHAPTER IV |
A Field-Day and Bivouac. More New Friends. An Invitation to the Country | 52 |
CHAPTER 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 | 66 |
CHAPTER VI |
An Old-fashioned Card-party. The Clergyman’s Verses. The Story of the Convict’s Return | 78 |
CHAPTER 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-Muggleton Dined at the Dingley Dell Expense: with other Interesting and Instructive Matters | 95 |
CHAPTER VIII |
Strongly Illustrative of the Position, that the Course of True Love is not a Railway | 111 |
CHAPTER IX |
A Discovery and a Chase | 126 |
CHAPTER X |
Clearing up all Doubts (if any Existed) of the Disinterestedness of Mr. Jingle’s Character | 136 |
CHAPTER 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 | 152 |
CHAPTER XII |
Descriptive of a very important Proceeding on the part of Mr. Pickwick; no less an Epoch in his Life, than in this History | 173 |
CHAPTER 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 | 181 |
CHAPTER XIV |
Comprising a Brief Description of the Company at the Peacock assembled; and a Tale told by a Bagman | 202 |
CHAPTER 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 Recognition of an Old Acquaintance, and the Commencement of another Chapter | 222 |
CHAPTER XVI |
Too full of Adventure to be Briefly Described | 238 |
CHAPTER XVII |
Showing that an Attack of Rheumatism in some cases, acts as a Quickener to Inventive Genius | 261 |
CHAPTER XVIII |
Briefly illustrative of Two Points;—First, the Power of Hysterics, and, Secondly, the Force of Circumstances | 271 |
CHAPTER XIX |
A Pleasant Day, with an Unpleasant Termination | 283 |
CHAPTER 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 Choice Spirits assembled at the Magpie and Stump, and what a Capital Chapter the Next One will be | 300 |
CHAPTER XXI |
In which the Old Man launches forth into his Favourite Theme, and relates a Story about a Queer Client | 319 |
CHAPTER XXII |
Mr. Pickwick Journeys to Ipswich, and meets with a Romantic Adventure with a Middle-aged Lady in Yellow Curl-papers | 338 |
CHAPTER XXIII |
In which Mr. Samuel Weller begins to devote his Energies to the Return Match between himself and Mr. Trotter | 357 |
CHAPTER XXIV |
Wherein Mr. Peter Magnus grows jealous, and the Middle-aged Lady apprehensive, which brings the Pickwickians within the Grasp of the Law | 367 |
CHAPTER 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 anothe
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