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THE PICKWICK PAPERS
CHARLES DICKENS

CONTENTS
1. The Pickwickians
2. The first Day's Journey, and the first Evening's Adventures; with
their Consequences
3. A new Acquaintance--The Stroller's Tale--A disagreeable
Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter

4. A Field Day and Bivouac--More new Friends--An Invitation to the
Country
5. A short one--Showing, among other Matters, how Mr. Pickwick
undertook to drive, and Mr. Winkle to ride, and how they both did it
6. An old-fashioned Card-party--The Clergyman's verses--The Story of
the Convict's Return
7. 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
8. Strongly illustrative of the Position, that the Course of True Love is
not a Railway
9. A Discovery and a Chase
10. Clearing up all Doubts (if any existed) of the Disinterestedness of
Mr. A. Jingle's Character
11. 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
12. Descriptive of a very important Proceeding on the Part of Mr.
Pickwick; no less an Epoch in his Life, than in this History
13. 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
14. Comprising a brief Description of the Company at the Peacock
assembled; and a Tale told by a Bagman
15. 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
16. Too full of Adventure to be briefly described
17. Showing that an Attack of Rheumatism, in some Cases, acts as a
Quickener to inventive Genius
18. Briefly illustrative of two Points; first, the Power of Hysterics, and,
secondly, the Force of Circumstances
19. A pleasant Day with an unpleasant Termination
20. 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
21. In which the old Man launches forth into his favourite Theme, and
relates a Story about a queer Client
22. Mr. Pickwick journeys to Ipswich and meets with a romantic
Adventure with a middle-aged Lady in yellow Curl-papers 23. In which
Mr. Samuel Weller begins to devote his Energies to the Return Match
between himself and Mr. Trotter
24. Wherein Mr. Peter Magnus grows jealous, and the middle-aged
Lady apprehensive, which brings the Pickwickians within the Grasp of
the Law
25. 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 Matter, which
will be found in its Place
26. Which contains a brief Account of the Progress of the Action of
Bardell against Pickwick

27. Samuel Weller makes a Pilgrimage to Dorking, and beholds his
Mother-in-law
28. 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 so religiously
kept up, in these degenerate Times
29. The Story of the Goblins who stole a Sexton
30. 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 their Visit came to
a Conclusion
31. Which is all about the Law, and sundry Great Authorities learned
therein
32. Describes, far more fully than the Court Newsman ever did, a