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The Pickwick Papers: Premium Edition (Unabridged, Illustrated, Table of Contents)
Price: $0.99 October 27, 2013
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Mr. Pickwick and Don Quijote
This review is from: The Pickwick Papers: Premium Edition (Unabridged, Illustrated, Table of Contents) (Kindle Edition)
While writing this I am also organizing the markings file of my first Kindle book Don Quijote, which I have perused several times. The Pickwick papers only this first time, although having been conscious of its existence forever, at least 50 years. I thought that it is just a small heap of papers to be quickly eyed through. Even starting I was not aware of its extent. But it just went on and on. Only afterwards I found out that as paper book it is in some edition 660 pages and in another even 800, that is about a half of Don Quijote. And not an only dull sentence or dead end, just like DQ! Many times I continued still another chapter beyond what I had intended. I finished it in three weeks, that is good 30-40 pages a day, which is about double of its due quota, considering that I usually read two or three books parallelly.
But what about the connection between DQ and Pickwick? Is there any above the fact that they both are huge blocs of foremost world literature? I have the itching that yes, but cannot show clear instances. Of course both main persons are in some way foolish idealists, big free minds, which we all wish we could be. A great deal of both stories takes place in travelling, but by different means and in different signs: DQ on his miserable Rosinante and Pickwick on various horse buggies, one of which is called gig and described as - in fact not described closer than that it was on several occasions 'clay colored and red wheeled', but how many wheels? no mention. Never heard before of this vehicle. Wikipedia gives a host of gigs, and mentions the vehicle as two wheeled and horse drawn.
In general, I am very pleased with my invention of collecting dictionary lookups to a vocabulary file. This is one of the finest features of Kindle, although left half way in performance. You get the dictionary definition in an instant, but after closing it vanishes into thin air. Luckily there are screen grabbers with which you can save both the word and its definition.
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| 1 | 01 | Contents Preface to the Charles Dickens Edition of 1867 |
| 1 | 0101 | CHAPTER I The Pickwickians. |
| 6 | 0102 | CHAPTER II The First Day's Journey, and the First Evening's Adventures; With Their Consequences That punctual |
| 29 | 0103 | CHAPTER III A New Acquaintance—The Stroller's Tale—A Disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter |
| 38 | 0104 | CHAPTER IV A Field Day and Bivouac—More New Friends—An Invitation To the Country |
| 48 | 0105 | CHAPTER V A Short One—Showing, Among Other Matters, How Mr. Pickwick Undertook To Drive, and Mr. Winkle To |
| 56 | 0106 | CHAPTER VI An Old-fashioned Card-Party—The Clergyman's Verses—The Story of the Convict's Return Several guests who were |
| 69 | 0107 | CHAPTER VII How Mr. Winkle, Instead of Shooting at the Pigeon and Killing the Crow, Shot at the sluggard, rookery. |
| 92 | 0108 | CHAPTER VIII Strongly Illustrative of the Position, That the Course of True Love Is Not a Railway |
| 92 | 0109 | CHAPTER IX A Discovery and a Chase The supper was ready laid, the chairs were drawn |
| 100 | 0110 | CHAPTER X Clearing Up All Doubts (If Any Existed) of the Disinterestedness of Mr. A. Jingle's Character |
| 112 | 0111 | CHAPTER XI Involving Another Journey, and an Antiquarian Discovery; Recording Mr. Pickwick's Determination To Be Present at an |
| 126 | 0112 | CHAPTER XII Descriptive of a Very Important Proceeding on the Part of Mr. Pickwick; No Less an Epoch |
| 132 | 0113 | 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 |
| 147 | 0114 | CHAPTER XIV Comprising a Brief Description of the Company at the Peacock Assembled; and a Tale Told By a Bagman |
| 161 | 0115 | 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 |
| 174 | 0116 | CHAPTER XVI Too Full of Adventure To Be Briefly Described |
| 185 | 0117 | CHAPTER XVII Showing That An Attack of Rheumatism, In Some Cases, Acts As a Quickener To Inventive Genius |
| 197 | 0118 | CHAPTER XVIII Briefly Illustrative of Two Points; First, the Power of Hysterics, and, Secondly, the Force of Circumstances |
| 206 | 0119 | CHAPTER XIX A Pleasant Day With An Unpleasant Termination |
| 218 | 0120 | CHAPTER XX Showing How Dodson and Fogg Were Men of Business, and Their Clerks Men of Pleasure; And |
| 232 | 0121 | CHAPTER XXI In Which the Old Man Launches Forth Into His Favourite Theme, and Relates a Story About |
| 246 | 0122 | CHAPTER XXII Mr. Pickwick Journeys to Ipswich and Meets With a Romantic Adventure With a Middle-aged Lady In Yellow Curl-Papers |
| 259 | 0123 | CHAPTER XXIII In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies to the Return Match Between Himself and Mr. Trotter |
| 280 | 0124 | CHAPTER XXIV Wherein Mr. Peter Magnus Grows Jealous, and the Middle-Aged Lady Apprehensive, Which Brings the Pickwickians Within the Grasp of the Law |
| 296 | 0125 | CHAPTER XXVI Which Contains a Brief Account of the Progress of the Action of Bardell Against Pickwick |
| 296 | 0126 | CHAPTER XXVII Samuel Weller Makes a Pilgrimage to Dorking, and Beholds His Mother-in-Law |
| 311 | 0127 | CHAPTER XXVIII A Good-Humoured 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 |
| 328 | 0128 | CHAPTER XXIX The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton |
| 337 | 0129 | 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 |
| 346 | 0130 | CHAPTER XXXI Which Is All About the Law, and Sundry Great Authorities Learned Therein |
| 360 | 0131 | 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 |
| 371 | 0132 | 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 |
| 385 | 0133 | CHAPTER XXXIV Is Wholly Devoted to a Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell Against Pickwick |
| 405 | 0134 | CHAPTER XXXV In Which Mr. Pickwick Thinks He Had Better Go to Bath; and Goes Accordingly |
| 418 | 0135 | 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 |
| 427 | 0136 | 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 |
| 439 | 0137 | CHAPTER XXXVIII How Mr. Winkle, When He Stepped Out of the Frying-Pan, Walked Gently and Comfortably Into the Fire |
| 450 | 0138 | CHAPTER XXXIX Mr. Samuel Weller, Being Intrusted With a Mission of Love, Proceeds to Execute It; With What Success Will Hereinafter Appear |
| 463 | 0139 | CHAPTER XL Introduces Mr. Pickwick to a New and Not Uninteresting Scene In the Great Drama of Life |
| 471 | 0140 | CHAPTER XLI What Befell Mr. Pickwick When He Got Into the Fleet; What Prisoners He Saw There, and How He Passed the Night |
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| 484 | 0142 | 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 |
| 497 | 0143 | CHAPTER XLIII Showing How Mr. Samuel Weller Got Into Difficulties I |
| 508 | 0144 | 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 |
| 520 | 0145 | 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 |
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| 535 | 0147 | CHAPTER XLVI Records a Touching Act of Delicate Feeling, Not Unmixed With Pleasantry, Achieved and Performed By Messrs. Dodson and Fogg |
| 543 | 0148 | 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 |
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| 553 | 0150 | 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 |
| 564 | 0151 | CHAPTER XLIX Containing the Story of the Bagman's Uncle |
| 578 | 0152 | CHAPTER L How Mr. Pickwick Sped Upon His Mission, and How He Was Reinforced In the Outset By a Most Unexpected Auxiliary |
| 590 | 0153 | CHAPTER LI How Mr. Pickwick Sped Upon His Mission, and How He Was Reinforced In the Outset By a Most Unexpected Auxiliary 'Good,' said the stranger. 'Coachman, I get down here. Guard, my carpet-bag!' Bidding the other passengers good-night, in a rather |
| 603 | 0154 | CHAPTER LII Involving a Serious Change In the Weller Family, and the Untimely Downfall of Mr. Stiggins |
| 614 | 0155 | 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 |
| 625 | 0156 | 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 |
| 639 | 0157 | CHAPTER LV Mr. Solomon Pell, Assisted By a Select Committee of Coachmen, Arranges the Affairs of the Elder Mr. Weller |
| 660 | 0158 | CHAPTER LVII In Which the Pickwick Club is Finally Dissolved, and Everything Concluded to the Satisfaction of Everybody |
| 666 | 0159 | END |
| 666 | 0160 | THE PICKWICK PAPERS: PREMIUM EDITION (UNABRIDGED, ILLUSTRATED, TABLE OF CONTENTS) |
| 666 | 0161 | The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens |
| 666 | 0162 | rmk:201310271238 Mr. Pickwick and Don Quijote |
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