| Description |
1 online resource (877 p.) |
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Alma Classics Evergreen Series |
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Alma Classics Evergreen Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- ToMr Serjeant Talfourd MP,*etc., etc. -- Preface -- 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 Rencontre -- 4 -- A Field Day and Bivouac -- More New Friends, and 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 |
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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 Jingle's Character -- 11 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
A rich and varied array of stories and vignettes, The Pickwick Papers is based around the investigations of the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club, consisting of its founder Mr Samuel Pickwick and Messrs Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, who travel around the country and then report back to the club concerning their extraordinary adventures and experiences.Dickens's first novel, The Pickwick Papers was an immediate success and caug |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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In Which Mr Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies to the Return Match between Himself and Mr Trotter |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780714550886 |
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0714550884 |
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