The Pickwick Papers

by Dickens, Charles; Kinsley, James

• ISBN13: 9780198126317
• ISBN10: 019812631X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1986-07-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

On the Clarendon Dickens : "The Oxford University Press continues its outstanding contribution to Dickens scholarship....This is a far more sophisticated scholarly edition of Dickens than has ever been attempted."-- Times Literary Supplement. The Pickwick Papers, seventh novel in The Clarendon Dickens , joins the heralded series on the 150th anniversary of its first publication. Originally planned as a monthly column, the "papers" of the Pickwick Club quickly outgrew their origins to become a brilliantly comic novel whose hilarity did not preclude penetrating satire on the state of pre-Victorian London. James Kinsley's introduction charts the novel's development and reveals new sources and influences on the work.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Note On The Text	p. xvii
A Chronology Of Charles Dickens	p. xviii
The Posthumous Papersor The Pickwick Club	p. xxxi
Tomr Serjeant Talfourdm.P.Etc., Etc	p. xxxii
Preface	p. xxxiv
The Pickwickians	p. 1
The First Day's Journey, and the First Evening's Adventures; with Their Consequences	p. 6
A New Acquaintance. the Stroller's Tale--A Disagreeable Interruption And an Unpleasant Rencontre	p. 31
A Field-Day and Bivouac--More New Friends; and An Invitation to the Country	p. 41
A Field-Day and Bivouac--More New Friends; and An Invitation to the Country	p. 52
A Field-Day and Bivouac--More New Friends; and An Invitation to the Country	p. 61
A Field-Day and Bivouac--More New Friends; and An Invitation to the Country	p. 74
A Field-Day and Bivouac--More New Friends; and An Invitation to the Country	p. 87
A Field-Day and Bivouac--More New Friends; and An Invitation to the Country	p. 99
A Field-Day and Bivouac--More New Friends; and An Invitation to the Country	p. 107
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	p. 121
Descriptive of a Very Important Proceeding on The Part of Mr. Pickwick; No Less an Epoch in His Life Than in This History	p. 137
Descriptive of a Very Important Proceeding on The Part of Mr. Pickwick; No Less an Epoch in His Life Than in This History	p. 142
Descriptive of a Very Important Proceeding on The Part of Mr. Pickwick; No Less an Epoch in His Life Than in This History	p. 159
In Which is Given a Faithful Portraiture Of Two Distinguished Persons; and an Accurate Description of a Public Breakfast in Their House and Grounds	p. 175
Too Full of Adventure to Be Briefly Described	p. 188
Too Full of Adventure to Be Briefly Described	p. 206
Too Full of Adventure to Be Briefly Described	p. 213
Too Full of Adventure to Be Briefly Described	p. 223
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	p. 236
In Which the Old Man Launches Forth into His Favourite Theme, and Relates a Story About AQueer Client	p. 251
In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies to the Return Match Between Himself And Mr. Trotter	p. 280
In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies to the Return Match Between Himself And Mr. Trotter	p. 288
In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies to the Return Match Between Himself And Mr. Trotter	p. 302
In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies to the Return Match Between Himself And Mr. Trotter	p. 319
In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies to the Return Match Between Himself And Mr. Trotter	p. 325
In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies to the Return Match Between Himself And Mr. Trotter	p. 334
In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies to the Return Match Between Himself And Mr. Trotter	p. 354
In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies to the Return Match Between Himself And Mr. Trotter	p. 363
Which is All About the Law, and Sundry Great Authorities Learned Therein	p. 375
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	p. 389
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	p. 401
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	p. 416
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	p. 439
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	p. 453
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	p. 464
How Mr. Winkle, When He Stepped Out of The Frying-Pan, Walked Gently and Comfortably Into The Fire	p. 476
How Mr. Winkle, When He Stepped Out of The Frying-Pan, Walked Gently and Comfortably Into The Fire	p. 488
How Mr. Winkle, When He Stepped Out of The Frying-Pan, Walked Gently and Comfortably Into The Fire	p. 502
How Mr. Winkle, When He Stepped Out of The Frying-Pan, Walked Gently and Comfortably Into The Fire	p. 513
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	p. 525
Showing How Mr. Samuel Weller Got Into Difficulties	p. 539
Showing How Mr. Samuel Weller Got Into Difficulties	p. 551
Showing How Mr. Samuel Weller Got Into Difficulties	p. 563
Showing How Mr. Samuel Weller Got Into Difficulties	p. 578
Is Chiefly Devoted to Matters of Business, And The Temporal Advantage of Dodson And Fogg	p. 588
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	p. 598
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	p. 610
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	p. 625
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	p. 640
Involving a Serious Change in the Weller Family And the Untimely Downfall of the Red-Nosed Mr Stiggins	p. 653
Involving a Serious Change in the Weller Family And the Untimely Downfall of the Red-Nosed Mr Stiggins	p. 664
Involving a Serious Change in the Weller Family And the Untimely Downfall of the Red-Nosed Mr Stiggins	p. 675
Mr. Solomon Pell, Assisted by a Select Committee Of Coachmen, Arranges the Affairs of the Elder Mr Weller	p. 690
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	p. 702
In Which the Pickwick Club is Finally Dissolved And Everything Concluded to the Satisfaction Of Everybody	p. 713
Dickens's Address From Publishers' Advertisement, 26 March 1836	p. 720
Preface to the Charles Dickens Edition, 1867	p. 722
Explanatory Notes	p. 726
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