The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Google eBook)

Charles Dickens

Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838 - English fiction - 388 pages

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A very audacious first novel, and a novel which seems to have spun completely out of its author's control. Despite being, along with PG Wodehouse, the most gifted humorous writer in the English ...

Contents

• Chaptkr LThe Pickwickians 3 Chap XVI Too full of Adventure to: 111
• A new Acquaintance The Quickener to Inventive Genius: 120
• A short oneshowing among pleasant Termination: 129
• How Mr Winkle instead of sembled at the Magpie and Stump: 135
• Strongly illustrative of the Ipswich and meets with a romantic: 151
• A Discovery and a Chase 64 Chap XXIII In which Mr Samuol: 159
• Some Account of Eatans With another matter which will: 171
• Comprising a brief Descrip Chap XXVII Samuel Weller makes: 183
• Chap XXIX How the Pickwickians viour and shows how the poor Chan: 300
• Which is all about the Law he inhabits and resolves to mix with: 307
• Describes far more fully delicate Feeling not unmixed with: 315
• Is wholly devoted to a Weller essayed to soften the heart: 325
• In which Mr Pickwick Chap XLVI1I Containing the Story: 331
• The chief features of upon his Mission and how he was: 340
• Honourably accounts for fortunate circumstance the Reader: 347
• How Mr Winkle when in the Weller Family and the untimely: 354
• Mr Samuel Weller Mr Jingle and Job Trotter with: 360
• What befel Mr Pickwick Interesting Disclosures relative to: 366
• Chap XLLIllustrative like the preced by a Select Committee of Coachmen: 373
• Showing how Mr Samuel coloured Suit arrives unexpectedly: 379
• Treats of divers little Club is finally dissolved and every: 385

Popular passages

Page 47 - The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim: And the mouldering dust that years have made Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green.‎

Page 235 - ... and at tip-cheese, or odd and even, his hand is out. But Pickwick, gentlemen, Pickwick, the ruthless destroyer of this domestic oasis in the desert of Goswell Street — Pickwick, who has choked up the well, and thrown ashes on the sward — Pickwick, who comes before you today with his heartless...‎

Page 235 - My client's hopes and prospects are ruined, and it is no figure of speech to say that her occupation is gone indeed. The bill is down - but there is no tenant. Eligible single gentlemen pass and repass - but there is no invitation for them to inquire within or without. All is gloom and silence in the house; even the voice of the child is hushed; his infant sports are disregarded when his mother weeps; his "alley tors" and his "commoneys" are alike neglected; he forgets the long familiar cry of "knuckle...‎

Page 226 - ... you may have heerd on Mary my dear) altho it does finish a portrait and put the frame and glass on complete with a hook at the end to hang it up by, and all in two minutes and a quarter.‎

Page 205 - Not an uncommon thing upon ice, sir," replied Mr. Weller. "Hold up, sir!" This last observation of Mr. Weller's bore reference to a demonstration Mr. Winkle made at the instant, of a frantic desire to throw his feet in the air, and dash the back of his head on the ice. "These— these — are very awkward skates; ain't they, Sam?" inquired Mr. Winkle, staggering. "I'm afeerd there's a orkard gen'l'm'n in 'em, sir," replied Sam. "Now, Winkle," cried Mr. Pickwick, quite unconscious that there was anything...‎

Page 234 - I say systematic villany, gentlemen," said Serjeant Buzfuz, looking through Mr. Pickwick, and talking at him ; " and when I say systematic villany, let me tell the defendant Pickwick, if he be in court, as I am informed he is, that it would have been more decent in him, more becoming, in better judgment, and in better taste, if he had stopped away. Let me tell him...‎

Page 234 - Before the bill had been in the parlour-window three days - three days, gentlemen — a being, erect upon two legs, and bearing all the outward semblance of a man, and not of a monster, knocked at the door of Mrs Bardell's house. He enquired within; he took the lodgings; and on the very next day he entered into possession of them. This man was Pickwick — Pickwick, the defendant.‎

Page 234 - Of this man Pickwick I will say little; the subject presents but few attractions; and I, gentlemen, am not the man, nor are you, gentlemen, the men, to delight in the contemplation of revolting heartlessness, and of systematic villany.‎

Page 226 - No it don't,' replied Sam, reading on very quickly, to avoid contesting the point. '"Except of me Mary my dear as your walentine and think over what I've said. — My dear Mary I will now conclude.‎

Page 233 - At this pathetic description of the decease of Mr. Bardell, who had been knocked on the head with a quart-pot in a publichouse cellar, the learned...‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Alfred Henry Forrester
• Author: Charles Dickens
• Illustrated by: Thomas Onwhyn, Alfred Henry Forrester
• Publisher: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Feb 1, 2007
• Length: 388 pages