The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers, also known as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was Dickens' first novel, published in 1837.
Table of Contents
Chapter II - The First Day's Journey and the First Evening's Adventures
Chapter III - A New Acquaintance, The Stroller's Tale
Chapter IV - A Field Day and Bivouac, More New Friends
Chapter V - How Mr. Pickwick Undertook to Drive
Chapter VI - An Old-Fashioned Card-Party, The Clergyman's Verses
Chapter VII - How Mr. Winkle, Instead of Shooting at a Pigeon
Chapter VIII - Strongly Illustrative of the Position
Chapter IX - A Discovery and a Chase
Chapter X - Clearing Up All Doubts
Chapter XI - Involving Another Journey, and an Antiquarian Discovery
Chapter XII - Descriptive of a Very Important Proceeding
Chapter XIII - Some Account of Eatanswill
Chapter XIV - Comprising a Brief Description at the Peacock Assembled
Chapter XV - In Which Is Given a Faithful Portraiture
Chapter XVI - Too Full of Adventure to Be Briefly Described
Chapter XVII - Showing That an Attack of Rheumatism
Chapter XVIII - Briefly Illustrative of Two Points
Chapter XIX - A Pleasant Day with an Unpleasant Termination
Chapter XX - Showing How Dodson and Fogg Were Men of Business
Chapter XXI - In Which the Old Man Launches Forth Into His Favourite Theme
Chapter XXII - Mr. Pickwick Journeys to Ipswich and Meets with a Romantic Adventure
Chapter XXIII - In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies
Chapter XXIV - Wherein Mr. Peter Magnus Grows Jealous
Chapter XXV - Showing, Among a Variety of Pleasant Matters
Chapter XXVI - Which Contains a Brief Account of the Progress
Chapter XXVII - Samuel Weller Makes a Pilgrimmage to Dorking
Chapter XXVIII - A Good-Humoured Christmas Chapter
Chapter XXIX - The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton
Chapter XXX - How the Pickwickians Made and Cultivated an Acquaintance
Chapter XXXI - Which Is All About the Law
Chapter XXXII - Describes Far More Fully Than the Newsman Ever Did
Chapter XXXIII - Mr. Weller the Elder Delivers Some Critical Sentiments
Chapter XXXIV - Is Wholly Devoted to a Full and Faithful Report
Chapter XXXV - In Which Mr. Pickwick Thinks He Had Better Go to Bath
Chapter XXXVI - The Chief Features of Which Will Be Found to Be an Authentic Version
Chapter XXXVII - Honourably Accounts for Mr. Weller's Absence
Chapter XXXVIII - How Mr. Winkle, When He Stepped Out of the Frying-Pan
Chapter XXXIX - Mr. Samuel Weller, Being Intrusted with a Mission of Love
Chapter XL - Introduces Mr. Pickwick to a New and Not Uninteresting Scene
Chapter XLI - What Befell Mr. Pickwick When He Fell Into the Fleet
Chapter XLII - Illustrative, Like the Preceding One, of the Old Proverb
Chapter XLIII - Showing How Mr. Samuel Weller Got Into Difficulties
Chapter XLIV - Treats of Divers Little Matters Which Occurred in the Fleet
Chapter XLV - Descriptive of an Affecting Interview Between Mr. Samuel Weller and a Family Party
Chapter XLVI - Records a Touching Act of Delicate Feeling
Chapter XLVII - Is Chiefly Devoted to Matters of Business
Chapter XLVIII - Relates How Mr. Pickwick, with the Assistance of Samuel Weller
Chapter XLIX - Containing the Story of the Bagman's Uncle
Chapter L - How Mr. Pickwick Sped Upon His Mission
Chapter LI - In Which Mr. Pickwick Encounters an Old Acquaintance
Chapter LII - Involving a Serious Change in the Weller Family
Chapter LIII - Comprising the Final Exit of Mr. Jingle and Job Trotter
Chapter LIV - Containing Some Particulars Relative to the Double Knock
Chapter LV - Mr. Solomon Pell, Assisted by a Select Committee of Coachmen
Chapter LVI - An Important Conference Takes Place
Chapter LVII - In Which the Pickwick Club is Finally Dissolved
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