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Preface to 1850 Edition
Preface to the charles dickens edition
Chapter 1. I Am Born
Chapter 2. I Observe
Chapter 3. I Have a Change
Chapter 4. I Fall into Disgrace
Chapter 5. I Am Sent Away from Home
Chapter 6. I Enlarge My Circle of Acquaintance
Chapter 7. My 'First Half' at Salem House
Chapter 8. My Holidays. Especially One Happy Afternoon
Chapter 9. I Have a Memorable Birthday
Chapter 10. I Become Neglected, and Am Provided for
Chapter 11. I Begin Life on My Own Account, and Don't Like It
Chapter 12. Liking Life on My Own Account No Better, I Form a Great Resolution
Chapter 13. The Sequel of My Resolution
Chapter 14. My Aunt Makes Up Her Mind about Me
Chapter 15. On the Look Out
Chapter 16. I Am a New Boy in More Senses than One
Chapter 17. Somebody Turns Up
Chapter 18. A Retrospect
Chapter 19. I Look about Me, and Make a Discovery
Chapter 20. Steerforth's Home
Chapter 21. Little Em'ly
Chapter 22. Some Old Scenes, and Some New People
Chapter 23. I Corroborate Mr. Dick, and Choose a Profession
Chapter 24. My First Dissipation
Chapter 25. Good and Bad Angels
Chapter 26. I Fall into Captivity
Chapter 27. Tommy Traddles
Chapter 28. Mr. Micawber's Gauntlet
Chapter 29. I Visit Steerforth at His Home, Again
Chapter 30. A Loss
Chapter 31. A Greater Loss
I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret – pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions – that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I love, with personal confidences, and private emotions.
Besides which, all that I could say of the Story, to any purpose, I have endeavoured to say in it.
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'He might have done worse,' said my aunt.
The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, – as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, – conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
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