Christmas Classics: Charles Dickens Collection (With Original Illustrations)

Christmas Classics: Charles Dickens Collection (With Original Illustrations)
Автор книги: id книги: 1970102     Оценка: 0.0     Голосов: 0     Отзывы, комментарии: 0 55,91 руб.     (0,54$) Читать книгу Купить и скачать книгу Купить бумажную книгу Электронная книга Жанр: Книги для детей: прочее Правообладатель и/или издательство: Bookwire Дата добавления в каталог КнигаЛит: ISBN: 9788075839466 Скачать фрагмент в формате   fb2   fb2.zip Возрастное ограничение: 0+ Оглавление Отрывок из книги

Реклама. ООО «ЛитРес», ИНН: 7719571260.

Описание книги

This unique collection of «Christmas Classics: Charles Dickens Collection (With Original Illustrations)» has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards.
A Christmas Carol
The Chimes
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Tree
David Copperfield
Little Dorrit
The Cricket on the Hearth
The Battle of Life
The Haunted Man
What Christmas Is As We Grow Older
The Poor Relation's Story
The Child's Story
The Schoolboy's Story
Nobody's Story
The Seven Poor Travellers
The Holly-Tree
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
A House to Let
The Haunted House
A Message From the Sea
Tom Tiddler's Ground
Somebody's Luggage
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy
Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions
Mugby Junction
No Thoroughfare
Great Expectations
The Pickwick Papers

Оглавление

Charles Dickens. Christmas Classics: Charles Dickens Collection (With Original Illustrations)

Christmas Classics: Charles Dickens Collection (With Original Illustrations)

Reading suggestions

Table of Contents

A Christmas Carol

PREFACE

List of Illustrations

STAVE I

STAVE II

STAVE III

STAVE IV

STAVE V

The Chimes

First Quarter

Second Quarter

Third Quarter

Fourth Quarter

The Cricket on the Hearth

Chirp the First

Chirp The Second

Chirp the Third

The Battle of Life

Part the First

Part the Second

Part the Third

The Haunted Man

CHAPTER I. THE GIFT BESTOWED

CHAPTER II. THE GIFT DIFFUSED

CHAPTER III. THE GIFT REVERSED

A Christmas Tree

What Christmas Is As We Grow Older

The Poor Relation's Story

The Child's Story

The Schoolboy's Story

Nobody's Story

The Seven Poor Travellers

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

The Holly-Tree

FIRST BRANCH. MYSELF

SECOND BRANCH. THE BOOTS

THIRD BRANCH. THE BILL

The Wreck of the Golden Mary

The Perils of Certain English Prisoners

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

A House to Let

OVER THE WAY

THE MANCHESTER MARRIAGE

GOING INTO SOCIETY

THREE EVENINGS IN THE HOUSE

TROTTLE'S REPORT

LET AT LAST

The Haunted House

The Mortals in the House

The Ghost in the Clock Room

The Ghost in the Double Room

The Ghost in the Picture Room

The Ghost in the Cupboard Room

The Ghost in Master B.'s Room

The Ghost in the Garden Room

The Ghost in the Corner Room

A Message From the Sea

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

Tom Tiddler's Ground

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

Somebody's Luggage

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

Mugby Junction

BARBOX BROTHERS

BARBOX BROTHERS AND CO

MAIN LINE

No. 1 BRANCH LINE

No. 2 BRANCH LINE

No. 3 BRANCH LINE

No. 4 BRANCH LINE

No. 5 BRANCH LINE

No Thoroughfare

THE OVERTURE

ACT I. THE CURTAIN RISES

ENTER THE HOUSEKEEPER

THE HOUSEKEEPER SPEAKS

NEW CHARACTERS ON THE SCENE

EXIT WILDING

ACT II. VENDALE MAKES LOVE

VENDALE MAKES MISCHIEF

ACT III. IN THE VALLEY

ON THE MOUNTAIN

ACT IV. THE CLOCK-LOCK

THE CURTAIN FALLS

Oliver Twist

CHAPTER I. TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH

CHAPTER II. TREATS OF OLIVER TWIST’S GROWTH, EDUCATION, AND BOARD

CHAPTER III. RELATES HOW OLIVER TWIST WAS VERY NEAR GETTING A PLACE WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A SINECURE

CHAPTER IV. OLIVER, BEING OFFERED ANOTHER PLACE, MAKES HIS FIRST ENTRY INTO PUBLIC LIFE

CHAPTER V. OLIVER MINGLES WITH NEW ASSOCIATES. GOING TO A FUNERAL FOR THE FIRST TIME, HE FORMS AN UNFAVOURABLE NOTION OF HIS MASTER’S BUSINESS

CHAPTER VI. OLIVER, BEING GOADED BY THE TAUNTS OF NOAH, ROUSES INTO ACTION, AND RATHER ASTONISHES HIM

CHAPTER VII. OLIVER CONTINUES REFRACTORY

CHAPTER VIII. OLIVER WALKS TO LONDON. HE ENCOUNTERS ON THE ROAD A STRANGE SORT OF YOUNG GENTLEMAN

CHAPTER IX. CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD GENTLEMAN, AND HIS HOPEFUL PUPILS

CHAPTER X. OLIVER BECOMES BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH THE CHARACTERS OF HIS NEW ASSOCIATES; AND PURCHASES EXPERIENCE AT A HIGH PRICE. BEING A SHORT, BUT VERY IMPORTANT CHAPTER, IN THIS HISTORY

CHAPTER XI. TREATS OF MR. FANG THE POLICE MAGISTRATE; AND FURNISHES A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF HIS MODE OF ADMINISTERING JUSTICE

CHAPTER XII. IN WHICH OLIVER IS TAKEN BETTER CARE OF THAN HE EVER WAS BEFORE. AND IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE REVERTS TO THE MERRY OLD GENTLEMAN AND HIS YOUTHFUL FRIENDS

CHAPTER XIII. SOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES ARE INTRODUCED TO THE INTELLIGENT READER, CONNECTED WITH WHOM VARIOUS PLEASANT MATTERS ARE RELATED, APPERTAINING TO THIS HISTORY

CHAPTER XIV. COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER’S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW’S, WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIMWIG UTTERED CONCERNING HIM, WHEN HE WENT OUT ON AN ERRAND

CHAPTER XV. SHOWING HOW VERY FOND OF OLIVER TWIST, THE MERRY OLD JEW AND MISS NANCY WERE

CHAPTER XVI. RELATES WHAT BECAME OF OLIVER TWIST, AFTER HE HAD BEEN CLAIMED BY NANCY

CHAPTER XVII. OLIVER’S DESTINY CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS, BRINGS A GREAT MAN TO LONDON TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION

CHAPTER XVIII. HOW OLIVER PASSED HIS TIME IN THE IMPROVING SOCIETY OF HIS REPUTABLE FRIENDS

CHAPTER XIX. IN WHICH A NOTABLE PLAN IS DISCUSSED AND DETERMINED ON

CHAPTER XX. WHEREIN OLIVER IS DELIVERED OVER TO MR. WILLIAM SIKES

CHAPTER XXI. THE EXPEDITION

CHAPTER XXII. THE BURGLARY

CHAPTER XXIII. WHICH CONTAINS THE SUBSTANCE OF A PLEASANT CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. BUMBLE AND A LADY; AND SHOWS THAT EVEN A BEADLE MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE ON SOME POINTS

CHAPTER XXIV. TREATS ON A VERY POOR SUBJECT. BUT IS A SHORT ONE, AND MAY BE FOUND OF IMPORTANCE IN THIS HISTORY

CHAPTER XXV. WHEREIN THIS HISTORY REVERTS TO MR. FAGIN AND COMPANY

CHAPTER XXVI. IN WHICH A MYSTERIOUS CHARACTER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE; AND MANY THINGS, INSEPARABLE FROM THIS HISTORY, ARE DONE AND PERFORMED

CHAPTER XXVII. ATONES FOR THE UNPOLITENESS OF A FORMER CHAPTER; WHICH DESERTED A LADY, MOST UNCEREMONIOUSLY

CHAPTER XXVIII. LOOKS AFTER OLIVER, AND PROCEEDS WITH HIS ADVENTURES

CHAPTER XXIX. HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH OLIVER RESORTED

CHAPTER XXX. RELATES WHAT OLIVER’S NEW VISITORS THOUGHT OF HIM

CHAPTER XXXI. INVOLVES A CRITICAL POSITION

CHAPTER XXXII. OF THE HAPPY LIFE OLIVER BEGAN TO LEAD WITH HIS KIND FRIENDS

CHAPTER XXXIII. WHEREIN THE HAPPINESS OF OLIVER AND HIS FRIENDS, EXPERIENCES A SUDDEN CHECK

CHAPTER XXXIV. CONTAINS SOME INTRODUCTORY PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO NOW ARRIVES UPON THE SCENE; AND A NEW ADVENTURE WHICH HAPPENED TO OLIVER

CHAPTER XXXV. CONTAINING THE UNSATISFACTORY RESULT OF OLIVER’S ADVENTURE; AND A CONVERSATION OF SOME IMPORTANCE BETWEEN HARRY MAYLIE AND ROSE

CHAPTER XXXVI. IS A VERY SHORT ONE, AND MAY APPEAR OF NO GREAT IMPORTANCE IN ITS PLACE, BUT IT SHOULD BE READ NOTWITHSTANDING, AS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST, AND A KEY TO ONE THAT WILL FOLLOW WHEN ITS TIME ARRIVES

CHAPTER XXXVII. IN WHICH THE READER MAY PERCEIVE A CONTRAST, NOT UNCOMMON IN MATRIMONIAL CASES

CHAPTER XXXVIII. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE, AND MR. MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEW

CHAPTER XXXIX. INTRODUCES SOME RESPECTABLE CHARACTERS WITH WHOM THE READER IS ALREADY ACQUAINTED, AND SHOWS HOW MONKS AND THE JEW LAID THEIR WORTHY HEADS TOGETHER

CHAPTER XL. A STRANGE INTERVIEW, WHICH IS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST CHAMBER

CHAPTER XLI. CONTAINING FRESH DISCOVERIES, AND SHOWING THAT SUPRISES, LIKE MISFORTUNES, SELDOM COME ALONE

CHAPTER XLII. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF OLIVER’S, EXHIBITING DECIDED MARKS OF GENIUS, BECOMES A PUBLIC CHARACTER IN THE METROPOLIS

CHAPTER XLIII. WHEREIN IS SHOWN HOW THE ARTFUL DODGER GOT INTO TROUBLE

CHAPTER XLIV. THE TIME ARRIVES FOR NANCY TO REDEEM HER PLEDGE TO ROSE MAYLIE. SHE FAILS

CHAPTER XLV. NOAH CLAYPOLE IS EMPLOYED BY FAGIN ON A SECRET MISSION

CHAPTER XLVI. THE APPOINTMENT KEPT

CHAPTER XLVII. FATAL CONSEQUENCES

CHAPTER XLVIII. THE FLIGHT OF SIKES

CHAPTER XLIX. MONKS AND MR. BROWNLOW AT LENGTH MEET. THEIR CONVERSATION, AND THE INTELLIGENCE THAT INTERRUPTS IT

CHAPTER L. THE PURSUIT AND ESCAPE

CHAPTER LI. AFFORDING AN EXPLANATION OF MORE MYSTERIES THAN ONE, AND COMPREHENDING A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE WITH NO WORD OF SETTLEMENT OR PIN-MONEY

CHAPTER LII. FAGIN’S LAST NIGHT ALIVE

CHAPTER LIII. AND LAST

David Copperfield

Little Dorrit

BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY

CHAPTER 1. Sun and Shadow

CHAPTER 2. Fellow Travellers

CHAPTER 3. Home

CHAPTER 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream

CHAPTER 5. Family Affairs

CHAPTER 6. The Father of the Marshalsea

CHAPTER 7. The Child of the Marshalsea

CHAPTER 8. The Lock

CHAPTER 9. Little Mother

CHAPTER 10. Containing the whole Science of Government

CHAPTER 11. Let Loose

CHAPTER 12. Bleeding Heart Yard

CHAPTER 13. Patriarchal

CHAPTER 14. Little Dorrit's Party

CHAPTER 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream

CHAPTER 16. Nobody's Weakness

CHAPTER 17. Nobody's Rival

CHAPTER 18. Little Dorrit's Lover

CHAPTER 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations

CHAPTER 20. Moving in Society

CHAPTER 21. Mr Merdle's Complaint

CHAPTER 22. A Puzzle

CHAPTER 23. Machinery in Motion

CHAPTER 24. Fortune-Telling

CHAPTER 25. Conspirators and Others

CHAPTER 26. Nobody's State of Mind

CHAPTER 27. Five-and-Twenty

CHAPTER 28. Nobody's Disappearance

CHAPTER 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming

CHAPTER 30. The Word of a Gentleman

CHAPTER 31. Spirit

CHAPTER 32. More Fortune-Telling

CHAPTER 33. Mrs Merdle's Complaint

CHAPTER 34. A Shoal of Barnacles

CHAPTER 35. What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit's Hand

CHAPTER 36. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan

BOOK THE SECOND: RICHES

CHAPTER 1. Fellow Travellers

CHAPTER 2. Mrs General

CHAPTER 3. On the Road

CHAPTER 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit

CHAPTER 5. Something Wrong Somewhere

CHAPTER 6. Something Right Somewhere

CHAPTER 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism

CHAPTER 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that 'It Never Does'

CHAPTER 9. Appearance and Disappearance

CHAPTER 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken

CHAPTER 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit

CHAPTER 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden

CHAPTER 13. The Progress of an Epidemic

CHAPTER 14. Taking Advice

CHAPTER 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not be joined together

CHAPTER 16. Getting on

CHAPTER 17. Missing

CHAPTER 18. A Castle in the Air

CHAPTER 19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air

CHAPTER 20. Introduces the next

CHAPTER 21. The History of a Self-Tormentor

CHAPTER 22. Who passes by this Road so late?

CHAPTER 23. Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise, respecting her Dreams

CHAPTER 24. The Evening of a Long Day

CHAPTER 25. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office

CHAPTER 26. Reaping the Whirlwind

CHAPTER 27. The Pupil of the Marshalsea

CHAPTER 28. An Appearance in the Marshalsea

CHAPTER 29. A Plea in the Marshalsea

CHAPTER 30. Closing in

CHAPTER 31. Closed

CHAPTER 32. Going

CHAPTER 33. Going!

CHAPTER 34. Gone

Great Expectations

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

CHAPTER XXVII

CHAPTER XXVIII

CHAPTER XXIX

CHAPTER XXX

CHAPTER XXXI

CHAPTER XXXII

CHAPTER XXXIII

CHAPTER XXXIV

CHAPTER XXXV

CHAPTER XXXVI

CHAPTER XXXVII

CHAPTER XXXVIII

CHAPTER XXXIX

CHAPTER XL

CHAPTER XLI

CHAPTER XLII

CHAPTER XLIII

CHAPTER XLIV

CHAPTER XLV

CHAPTER XLVI

CHAPTER XLVII

CHAPTER XLVIII

CHAPTER XLIX

CHAPTER L

CHAPTER LI

CHAPTER LII

CHAPTER LIII

CHAPTER LIV

CHAPTER LV

CHAPTER LVI

CHAPTER LVII

CHAPTER LVIII

CHAPTER LIX — THE ORIGINAL ENDING

CHAPTER LIX — THE REVISED ENDING

The Pickwick Papers

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 ENCOUNTER

CHAPTER IV. A FIELD DAY AND BIVOUAC — MORE NEW FRIENDS — AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY

CHAPTER V. A SHORT ONE — SHOWING, AMONG OTHER MATTERS, HOW Mr. PICKWICK UNDERTOOK TO DRIVE, AND Mr. WINKLE TO RIDE, AND HOW THEY BOTH DID IT

CHAPTER VI. AN OLD-FASHIONED CARD-PARTY — THE CLERGYMAN’S VERSES — THE STORY OF THE CONVICT’S RETURN

CHAPTER VII. HOW Mr. WINKLE, INSTEAD OF SHOOTING AT THE PIGEON AND KILLING THE CROW, SHOT AT THE CROW AND WOUNDED THE PIGEON. HOW THE DINGLEY DELL CRICKET CLUB PLAYED ALL-MUGGLETON, AND HOW ALL-MUGGLETON DINED AT THE DINGLEY DELL EXPENSE; WITH OTHER INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE MATTERS

CHAPTER VIII. STRONGLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE POSITION, THAT THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE IS NOT A RAILWAY

CHAPTER IX. A DISCOVERY AND A CHASE

CHAPTER X. CLEARING UP ALL DOUBTS (IF ANY EXISTED) OF THE DISINTERESTEDNESS OF Mr. A. JINGLE’S CHARACTER

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 XIII. SOME ACCOUNT OF EATANSWILL OF THE STATE OF PARTIES THEREIN; AND OF THE ELECTION OF A MEMBER TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THAT ANCIENT, LOYAL, AND PATRIOTIC BOROUGH

CHAPTER XIV. COMPRISING A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE COMPANY AT THE PEACOCK ASSEMBLED; AND A TALE TOLD BY A BAGMAN

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: WHICH PUBLIC BREAKFAST LEADS TO THE RECOGNITION OF AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE, AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF ANOTHER CHAPTER

CHAPTER XVI. TOO FULL OF ADVENTURE TO BE BRIEFLY DESCRIBED

CHAPTER XVII. SHOWING THAT AN ATTACK OF RHEUMATISM, IN SOME CASES, ACTS AS A QUICKENER TO INVENTIVE GENIUS

CHAPTER XVIII. BRIEFLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF TWO POINTS; FIRST, THE POWER OF HYSTERICS, AND, SECONDLY, THE FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES

CHAPTER XIX. A PLEASANT DAY WITH AN UNPLEASANT TERMINATION

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 XXII. Mr. PICKWICK JOURNEYS TO IPSWICH AND MEETS WITH A ROMANTIC ADVENTURE WITH A MIDDLE-AGED LADY IN YELLOW CURLPAPERS

CHAPTER XXIII. IN WHICH Mr. SAMUEL WELLER BEGINS TO DEVOTE HIS ENERGIES TO THE RETURN MATCH BETWEEN HIMSELF AND Mr. TROTTER

CHAPTER XXIV. WHEREIN Mr. PETER MAGNUS GROWS JEALOUS, AND THE MIDDLE-AGED LADY APPREHENSIVE, WHICH BRINGS THE PICKWICKIANS WITHIN THE GRASP OF THE LAW

CHAPTER XXV. SHOWING, AMONG A VARIETY OF PLEASANT MATTERS, HOW MAJESTIC AND IMPARTIAL Mr. NUPKINS WAS AND HOW Mr. WELLER RETURNED Mr. JOB TROTTER’S SHUTTLECOCK AS HEAVILY AS IT CAME — WITH ANOTHER MATTER, WHICH WILL BE FOUND IN ITS PLACE

CHAPTER XXVI. WHICH CONTAINS A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PROGRESS OF THE ACTION OF BARDELL AGAINST PICKWICK

CHAPTER XXVII. SAMUEL WELLER MAKES A PILGRIMAGE TO DORKING, AND BEHOLDS HIS MOTHERIN-LAW

CHAPTER XXVIII. A GOODHUMOURED CHRISTMAS CHAPTER, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF A WEDDING AND SOME OTHER SPORTS BESIDE: WHICH ALTHOUGH IN THEIR WAY, EVEN AS GOOD CUSTOMS AS MARRIAGE ITSELF, ARE NOT QUITE SO RELIGIOUSLY KEPT UP, IN THESE DEGENERATE TIMES

CHAPTER 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

Отрывок из книги

Charles Dickens

The Chimes

.....

‘I beg your pardon, friend,’ said the old gentleman, advancing to him; ‘the more so, as I fear your wife has not been well; but the Attendant whom my infirmity,’ he touched his ears and shook his head, ‘renders almost indispensable, not having arrived, I fear there must be some mistake. The bad night which made the shelter of your comfortable cart (may I never have a worse!) so acceptable, is still as bad as ever. Would you, in your kindness, suffer me to rent a bed here?’

‘Yes, yes,’ cried Dot. ‘Yes! Certainly!’

.....

Добавление нового отзыва

Комментарий Поле, отмеченное звёздочкой  — обязательно к заполнению

Отзывы и комментарии читателей

Нет рецензий. Будьте первым, кто напишет рецензию на книгу Christmas Classics: Charles Dickens Collection (With Original Illustrations)
Подняться наверх