THE PICKWICK PAPERS (Illustrated). Charles Dickens

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СКАЧАТЬ XXIX. The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton

       Chapter XXX. 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

       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 XXXIV. Is Wholly Devoted to a Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell Against Pickwick

       Chapter XXXV. In which Mr. Pickwick Thinks He Had Better Go to Bath; And Goes Accordingly

       Chapter XXXVI. The Chief Features of which will be Found to be an Authentic Version of the Legend of Prince Bladud, and a Most Extraordinary Calamity that Befell Mr. Winkle

       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 XXXIX. Mr. Samuel Weller, Being Intrusted with a Mission of Love, Proceeds to Execute It; With What Success Will Hereinafter Appear

       Chapter XL. Introduces Mr. Pickwick to a New and Not Uninteresting Scene in the Great Drama of Life

       Chapter XLI. What Befell Mr. Pickwick when He Got into the Fleet; What Prisoners He Saw There, and how He Passed the Night

       Chapter XLII. Illustrative, Like the Preceding One, of the Old Proverb, that Adversity Brings a Man Acquainted with Strange Bedfellows — Likewise Containing Mr. Pickwick’s Extraordinary and Startling Announcement to Mr. Samuel Weller

       Chapter XLIII. Showing How Mr. Samuel Weller Got Into Difficulties

       Chapter XLIV. Treats of Divers Little Matters which Occurred in the Fleet and of Mr. Winkle’s Mysterious Behaviour; And Shows How the Poor Chancery Prisoner Obtained His Release at Last

       Chapter XLV. Descriptive of an Affecting Interview Between Mr. Samuel Weller and a Family Party. Mr. Pickwick Makes a Tour of the Diminutive World He Inhabits, and Resolves to Mix with it, in Future, as Little as Possible

       Chapter XLVI. Records a Touching Act of Delicate Feeling, Not Unmixed with Pleasantry, Achieved and Performed by Messrs. Dodson and Fogg

       Chapter XLVII. Is Chiefly Devoted to Matters of Business, and the Temporal Advantage of Dodson and Fogg. Mr. Winkle Reappears Under Extraordinary Circumstances — Mr. Pickwick’s Benevolence Proves Stronger than His Obstinacy

       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 XLIX. Containing the Story of the Bagman’s Uncle

       Chapter L. How Mr. Pickwick Sped Upon His Mission, and how He Was Reinforced in the Outset by a Most Unexpected Auxiliary

       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 Mr. Stiggins

       Chapter LIII. Comprising the Final Exit of Mr. Jingle and Job Trotter, with a Great Morning of Business in Gray’s Inn Square — Concluding with a Double Knock at Mr. Perker’s Door

       Chapter LIV. Containing Some Particulars Relative to the Double Knock, and other Matters: Among which Certain Interesting Disclosures Relative to Mr. Snodgrass and a Young Lady are by No Means Irrelevant to This History

       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

      Chapter I.

       The Pickwickians

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      The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear СКАЧАТЬ