The Pickwick Papers

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OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS

CHARLES DICKENS

The Pickwick Papers

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
JAMES KINSLEY

OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Pickwick Papers. Contributors: Charles Dickens - author, James Kinsley - editor. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1988. Page Number: iii.

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EXTRA ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

NOTE ON THE TEXT

A CHRONOLOGY OF CHARLES DICKENS

THE Posthumous Papers or THE PICKWICK CLUB.

TO MR. SERJEANT TALFOURD, M.P., ETC., ETC

PREFACE

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Chapter I The Pickwickians

Chapter II The First Day's Journey, and the First Evening's Adventures; with Their Consequences

Chapter III A New Acquaintance. the Stroller's Tale-- A Disagreeable Interruption; And an Unpleasant Rencontre

Chapter IV A Field-Day and Bivouac--More New Friends; and An Invitation to the Country

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

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

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

Chapter XVI Too Full of Adventure to Be Briefly Described

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

Chapter XXI In Which the Old Man Launches Forth into His Favourite Theme, and Relates a Story About A Queer Client

Chapter XXIII In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies to the Return Match Between Himself And Mr. Trotter

Chapter XXXI Which is All About the Law, and Sundry Great Authorities Learned Therein

Chapter XXXII Describes, Far More Fully Than the Court Newsman Ever Did, a Bachelor's Party, Given by Mr. Bob Sawyer at His Lodgings in the Borough

Chapter XXXIII Mr. Weller the Elder Delivers Some Critical Sentiments Respecting Literary Composition; And, Assisted by His Son Samuel, Pays a Small Instalment Of Retaliation to the Account of the Reverend Gentleman with the Red Nose

Chapter XXXVII Honourably Accounts for Mr. Weller's Absence, by Describing a Soiree to Which He Was Invited and Went.--Also Relates How He Was Entrusted by Mr. Pickwick with a Private Mission of Delicacy and Importance

Chapter XXXVIII How Mr. Winkle, When He Stepped Out of The Frying-Pan, Walked Gently and Comfortably Into The Fire

Chapter XLII Illustrative, like the Preceding One, of The Old Proverb, That Adversity Brings a Man Acquainted with Strange Bed-Fellows. Likewise Containing Mr. Pickwick's Extraordinary And Startling Announcement to Mr. Samuel Weller

Chapter XLIII Showing How Mr. Samuel Weller Got Into Difficulties

Chapter XLVII Is Chiefly Devoted to Matters of Business, And The Temporal Advantage of Dodson And Fogg.

Chapter XLVIII Relates How Mr. Pickwick, with the Assistance Of Samuel Weller, Essayed to Soften the Heart Of Mr. Benjamin Allen, and to Mollify The Wrath of Mr. Robert Sawyer

Chapter LI In Which Mr. Pickwick Encounters an Old Acquaintance, to Which Fortunate Circumstance the Reader is Mainly Indebted for Matter of Thrilling Interest Herein Set Down, Concerning Two Great Public Men of Might And Power

Chapter LII Involving a Serious Change in the Weller Family, And the Untimely Downfall of the Red-Nosed Mr. Stiggins

Chapter LV Mr. Solomon Pell, Assisted by a Select Committee Of Coachmen, Arranges the Affairs of the Elder Mr. Weller

Chapter LVI An Important Conference Takes Place Between Mr. Pickwick and Samuel Weller, at Which His Parent Assists.--An Old Gentleman in a Snuff-Coloured Suit Arrives Unexpectedly

Chapter LVII In Which the Pickwick Club is Finally Dissolved, And Everything Concluded to the Satisfaction Of Everybody

Appendix A Dickens's Address From Publishers' Advertisement, 26 March 1836

Appendix B Preface to the Charles Dickens Edition, 1867

EXPLANATORY NOTES

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