# The Pickwick Papers — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

- [The Pickwick Papers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/the-pickwick-papers.md): The novel introduces the Pickwick Club, founded by Samuel Pickwick and his friends Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass, and Nathaniel Winkle. They embark on a journey of observation and adventure, encountering a series of c
- [The Pickwickians](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/i.md): The first chapter introduces the Pickwick Club, founded by Samuel Pickwick, and records the founding of the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club, with Pickwick, Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle as members. The chapter
- [The First Day's Journey, and the First Evening's Adventures; with Their Consequences](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/ii.md): Mr. Pickwick begins his journey from Goswell Street, hails a cab, and notes the driver's absurd claims about his horse. At the Golden Cross, he meets his fellow Pickwickians—Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle. After a dispute
- [A New Acquaintance—The Stroller's Tale—A Disagreeable Interruption, and an Unpleasant Encounter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/iii.md): Mr. Pickwick and his companions meet a mysterious, careworn man known as 'Dismal Jemmy,' a strolling actor who shares a grim tale of suffering. The evening is disrupted by the arrival of Doctor Slammer and his friends, w
- [A Field Day and Bivouac—More New Friends—An Invitation to the Country](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/iv.md): The Pickwickians attend a grand military review near Rochester, enduring the jostling crowd and a chaotic charge that leaves them disheveled. After the maneuvers, Mr. Pickwick is invited by a stout old gentleman to visit

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- [A Short One — Showing How Mr. Pickwick Undertook to Drive, and Mr. Winkle to Ride, and How They Both Did It](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/v.md)
- [An Old-Fashioned Card-Party—The Clergyman's Verses—The Story of the Convict's Return](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [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.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII: Strongly illustrative of the position, that the course of true love is not a railway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [Chapter IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [The Rescue of Rachael Wardle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/x.md)
- [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.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [Descriptive of a very important proceeding on the part of Mr. Pickwick; no less an epoch in his life, than in this history](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [Comprising a brief description of the company at the Peacock assembled; and a tale told by a bagman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [Chapter XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [Chapter XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xvi.md)
- [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xvii.md)
- [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xviii.md)
- [A Pleasant Day with an Unpleasant Termination](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xix.md)
- [Chapter XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xx.md)
- [Chapter XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxi.md)
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxii.md)
- [In which Mr. Samuel Weller begins to devote his energies to the return match between himself and Mr. Trotter.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxiii.md)
- [Wherein Mr. Peter Magnus grows jealous, and the middle-aged lady apprehensive, which brings the Pickwickians within the grasp of the law](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxiv.md)
- [Chapter XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxv.md)
- [Chapter XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxvi.md)
- [Samuel Weller makes a pilgrimage to Dorking, and beholds his mother-in-law](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxvii.md)
- [Chapter XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxviii.md)
- [The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxix.md)
- [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.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxx.md)
- [Chapter XXXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxi.md)
- [A Bachelor's Party at Mr. Bob Sawyer's](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxii.md)
- [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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxiii.md)
- [The Trial of Bardell vs. Pickwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxiv.md)
- [In which Mr. Pickwick thinks he had better go to Bath; and goes accordingly.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxv.md)
- [Chapter XXXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxvi.md)
- [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.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxvii.md)
- [How Mr. Winkle, when he stepped out of the frying-pan, walked gently and comfortably into the fire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxviii.md)
- [Mr. Samuel Weller, being entrusted with a mission of love, proceeds to execute it; with what success will hereinafter appear.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxix.md)
- [Chapter XL: Mr. Pickwick is Arrested and Taken to the Fleet Prison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xl.md)
- [What befell Mr. Pickwick when he got into the Fleet; what prisoners he saw there, and how he passed the night.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xli.md)
- [XLII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xlii.md)
- [Showing how Mr. Samuel Weller got into difficulties](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xliii.md)
- [XLIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xliv.md)
- [Chapter XLV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xlv.md)
- [XLVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xlvi.md)
- [XLVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xlvii.md)
- [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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xlviii.md)
- [Containing the story of the bagman's uncle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xlix.md)
- [Chapter L](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/l.md)
- [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.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/li.md)
- [LII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/lii.md)
- [LIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/liii.md)
- [LIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/liv.md)
- [Chapter LV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/lv.md)
- [LVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/lvi.md)
- [LVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/lvii.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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