1、Pickwick Papers匹克威克外傳英文版 ELECBOOK CLASSICSTHEPICKWICKPAPERSCharles DickensELECBOOK CLASSICSebc0013. Charles Dickens: The Pickwick PapersThis file is free for individual use only. It must not be altered or resold.Organisations wishing to use it must first obtain a licence.Low cost licenses are availa

2、ble. Contact us through our web site The Electric Book Co 1998The Electric Book Company Ltd20 Cambridge Drive, London SE12 8AJ, UK+44 0181 488 3872 /.THE PICKWICKPAPERSCharles DickensThe Posthumous PapersOf The Pickwick ClubThe Pickwick Papers 4CONTENTSClick on number to go to ChapterChapter ITHE PI

3、CKWICKIANS.14Chapter IITHE FIRST DAYS JOURNEY, AND THEFIRST EVENINGS ADVENTURES; WITH THEIRCONSEQUENCES.21Chapter IIIA NEW ACQUAINTANCE?THESTROLLERS TALE?A DISAGREEABLEINTERRUPTION, AND AN UNPLEASANTChapter IVA FIELD DAY AND BIVOUAC?MORENEW FRIENDS?AN INVITATION TO THEChapter VA SHORT ONE?SHOWING, A

4、MONGOTHER MATTERS, HOW Mr. PICKWICKUNDERTOOK TO DRIVE, AND Mr. WINKLE TOChapter VIAN OLD-FASHIONED CARD-PARTY?THE CLERGYMANS VERSES?THE STORY OFTHE CONVICTS RETURN.105Chapter VIIHOW Mr. WINKLE, INSTEAD OFSHOOTING AT THE PIGEON AND KILLING THECROW, SHOT AT THE CROW AND WOUNDED THEPIGEON; HOW THE DING

5、LEY DELL CRICKETCLUB PLAYED ALL-MUGGLETON, AND HOW ALL-MUGGLETON DINED AT THE DINGLEY DELLCharles Dickens ElecBook ClassicsThe Pickwick Papers 5EXPENSE; WITH OTHER INTERESTING ANDINSTRUCTIVE MATTERS126Chapter VIIISTRONGLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THEPOSITION, THAT THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE ISChapter IXA DISCOV

6、ERY AND A CHASE.164Chapter XCLEARING UP ALL DOUBTS IF ANYEXISTED OF THE DISINTERESTEDNESS OF Mr.Chapter XIINVOLVING ANOTHER JOURNEY,AND AN ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY; RECORDINGMr. PICKWICKS DETERMINATION TO BEPRESENT AT AN ELECTION; AND CONTAINING AChapter XIIDESCRIPTIVE OF A VERYIMPORTANT PROCEEDING ON

7、THE PART OF Mr.PICKWICK; NO LESS AN EPOCH IN HIS LIFE,Chapter XIIISOME ACCOUNT OF EATANSWILL;OF THE STATE OF PARTIES THEREIN; AND OFTHE ELECTION OF A MEMBER TO SERVE INPARLIAMENT FOR THAT ANCIENT, LOYAL, ANDChapter XIVCOMPRISING A BRIEFDESCRIPTION OF THE COMPANY AT THEPEACOCK ASSEMBLED; AND A TALE T

8、OLD BY ACharles Dickens ElecBook ClassicsThe Pickwick Papers 6Chapter XVIN WHICH IS GIVEN A FAITHFULPORTRAITURE OF TWO DISTINGUISHEDPERSONS; AND AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OFA PUBLIC BREAKFAST IN THEIR HOUSE ANDGROUNDS: WHICH PUBLIC BREAKFAST LEADSTO THE RECOGNITION OF AN OLDACQUAINTANCE, AND THE COMME

9、NCEMENT OFANOTHER CHAPTER.279Chapter XVITOO FULL OF ADVENTURE TO BEBRIEFLY DESCRIBED299Chapter XVIISHOWING THAT AN ATTACK OFRHEUMATISM, IN SOME CASES, ACTS AS AChapter XVIIIBRIEFLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF TWOPOINTS; FIRST, THE POWER OF HYSTERICS,AND, SECONDLY, THE FORCE OFCIRCUMSTANCEs.337Chapter XIXA PLEAS

10、ANT DAY WITH ANUNPLEASANT TERMINATION.352Chapter XXSHOWING HOW DODSON AND FOGGWERE MEN OF BUSINESS, AND THEIR CLERKSMEN OF PLEASURE; AND HOW AN AFFECTINGINTERVIEW TOOK PLACE BETWEEN Mr. WELLERAND HIS LONG-LOST PARENT; SHOWING ALSOWHAT CHOICE SPIRITS ASSEMBLED AT THEMAGPIE AND STUMP, AND WHAT A CAPIT

11、ALCHAPTER THE NEXT ONE WILL BE372Charles Dickens ElecBook ClassicsThe Pickwick Papers 7Chapter XXIIN WHICH THE OLD MANLAUNCHES FORTH INTO HIS FAVOURITETHEME, AND RELATES A STORY ABOUT AQUEER CLIENT395Chapter XXIIMr. PICKWICK JOURNEYS TOIPSWICH AND MEETS WITH A ROMANTICADVENTURE WITH A MIDDLE-AGED LA

12、DY INYELLOW CURL-PAPERS419Chapter XXIIIIN WHICH Mr. SAMUEL WELLERBEGINS TO DEVOTE HIS ENERGIES TO THERETURN MATCH BETWEEN HIMSELF AND Mr.TROTTER.441Chapter XXIVWHEREIN Mr. PETER MAGNUSGROWS JEALOUS, AND THE MIDDLE-AGED LADYAPPREHENSIVE, WHICH BRINGS THEPICKWICKIANS WITHIN THE GRASP OF THEChapter XXV

13、SHOWING, AMONG A VARIETY OFPLEASANT MATTERS, HOW MAJESTIC ANDIMPARTIAL Mr. NUPKINS WAS; AND HOW Mr.WELLER RETURNED Mr. JOB TROTTERSSHUTTLECOCK AS HEAVILY AS IT CAME?WITHANOTHER MATTER, WHICH WILL BE FOUND INITS PLACE475Chapter XXVIWHICH CONTAINS A BRIEFACCOUNT OF THE PROGRESS OF THE ACTIONOF BARDELL

14、 AGAINST PICKWICK.501Charles Dickens ElecBook ClassicsThe Pickwick Papers 8Chapter XXVIISAMUEL WELLER MAKES APILGRIMAGE TO DORKING, AND BEHOLDS HISMOTHER-IN-LAW.510Chapter XXVIIIA GOOD-HUMOUREDCHRISTMAS CHAPTER, CONTAINING ANACCOUNT OF A WEDDING, AND SOME OTHERSPORTS BESIDE: WHICH ALTHOUGH IN THEIRW

15、AY, EVEN AS GOOD CUSTOMS AS MARRIAGEITSELF, ARE NOT QUITE SO RELIGIOUSLY KEPTUP, IN THESE DEGENERATE TIMES.524Chapter XXIXTHE STORY OF THE GOBLINSChapter XXXHOW THE PICKWICKIANS MADEAND CULTIVATED THE ACQUAINTANCE OF ACOUPLE OF NICE YOUNG MEN BELONGING TOONE OF THE LIBERAL PROFESSIONS; HOW THEYDISPO

16、RTED THEMSELVES ON THE ICE; ANDHOW THEIR VISIT CAME TO A CONCLUSION568Chapter XXXI. WHICH IS ALL ABOUT THE LAW,AND SUNDRY GREAT AUTHORITIES LEARNEDTHEREIN584Chapter XXXIIDESCRIBES, FAR MORE FULLYTHAN THE COURT NEWSMAN EVER DID, ABACHELORS PARTY, GIVEN BY Mr. BOB SAWYERAT HIS LODGINGS IN THE BOROUGH.

17、606Chapter XXXIII. Mr. WELLER THE ELDERDELIVERS SOME CRITICAL SENTIMENTSCharles Dickens ElecBook ClassicsThe Pickwick Papers 9RESPECTING LITERARY COMPOSITION; AND,ASSISTED BY HIS SON SAMUEL, PAYS A SMALLINSTALMENT OF RETALIATION TO THEACCOUNT OF THE REVEREND GENTLEMANWITH THE RED NOSE625Chapter XXXI

18、VIS WHOLLY DEVOTED TO AFULL AND FAITHFUL REPORT OF THEMEMORABLE TRIAL OF BARDELL AGAINSTChapter XXXVIN WHICH Mr. PICKWICK THINKSHE HAD BETTER GO TO BATH; AND GOESChapter XXXVITHE CHIEF FEATURES OFWHICH WILL BE FOUND TO BE AN AUTHENTICVERSION OF THE LEGEND OF PRINCE BLADUD,AND A MOST EXTRAORDINARY CA

19、LAMITY THATChapter XXXVIIHONOURABLY ACCOUNTS FORMr. WELLERS ABSENCE, BY DESCRIBING ASOIREE TO WHICH HE WAS INVITED AND WENT;ALSO RELATES HOW HE WAS ENTRUSTED BYMr. PICKWICK WITH A PRIVATE MISSION OFDELICACY AND IMPORTANCE.720Chapter XXXVIII. HOW Mr. WINKLE, WHEN HESTEPPED OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN, WALK

20、EDGENTLY AND COMFORTABLY INTO THE FIRE739Chapter XXXIXMr. SAMUEL WELLER, BEINGCharles Dickens ElecBook ClassicsThe Pickwick Papers 10INTRUSTED WITH A MISSION OF LOVE,PROCEEDS TO EXECUTE IT; WITH WHATSUCCESS WILL HEREINAFTER APPEAR758Chapter XLINTRODUCES Mr. PICKWICK TO ANEW AND NOT UNINTERESTING SCE

21、NE IN THEGREAT DRAMA OF LIFE.779Chapter XLIWHAT BEFELL Mr. PICKWICKWHEN HE GOT INTO THE FLEET; WHATPRISONERS HE SAW THERE, AND HOW HEPASSED THE NIGHT.797Chapter XLIIILLUSTRATIVE, LIKE THEPRECEDING ONE, OF THE OLD PROVERB, THATADVERSITY BRINGS A MAN ACQUAINTED WITHSTRANGE BEDFELLOWS?LIKEWISECONTAININ

22、G Mr. PICKWICKS EXTRAORDINARYAND STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT TO Mr.Chapter XLIIISHOWING HOW Mr. SAMUELChapter XLIVTREATS OF DIVERS LITTLEMATTERS WHICH OCCURRED IN THE FLEET,AND OF Mr. WINKLES MYSTERIOUSBEHAVIOUR; AND SHOWS HOW THE POORCHANCERY PRISONER OBTAINED HIS RELEASEAT LAST.855Chapter XLV. DESCRIPT

23、IVE OF AN AFFECTINGINTERVIEW BETWEEN Mr. SAMUEL WELLERCharles Dickens ElecBook ClassicsThe Pickwick Papers 11AND A FAMILY PARTY. Mr. PICKWICK MAKES ATOUR OF THE DIMINUTIVE WORLD HEINHABITS, AND RESOLVES TO MIX WITH IT, INFUTURE, AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE.874Chapter XLVIRECORDS A TOUCHING ACT OFDELICATE

24、FEELING, NOT UNMIXED WITHPLEASANTRY, ACHIEVED AND PERFORMED BYMessrs. DODSON AND FOGG897Chapter XLVIIIS CHIEFLY DEVOTED TOMATTERS OF BUSINESS, AND THE TEMPORALADVANTAGE OF DODSON AND FOGG?Mr.WINKLE REAPPEARS UNDER EXTRAORDINARYCIRCUMSTANCES?Mr. PICKWICKSBENEVOLENCE PROVES STRONGER THAN HISChapter XL

25、VIIIRELATES HOW Mr. PICKWICK,WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF SAMUEL WELLER,ESSAYED TO SOFTEN THE HEART OF Mr.BENJAMIN ALLEN, AND TO MOLLIFY THEChapter XLIXCONTAINING THE STORY OF THEBAGMANS UNCLE946Chapter LHOW Mr. PICKWICK SPED UPON HISMISSION, AND HOW HE WAS REINFORCED INTHE OUTSET BY A MOST UNEXPECTEDAUXI

26、LIARY.970Chapter LIIN WHICH Mr. PICKWICKCharles Dickens ElecBook ClassicsThe Pickwick Papers 12ENCOUNTERS AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE?TOWHICH FORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCE THEREADER IS MAINLY INDEBTED FOR MATTER OFTHRILLING INTEREST HEREIN SET DOWN,CONCERNING TWO GREAT PUBLIC MEN OFMIGHT AND POWER991Chapter LIIINV

27、OLVING A SERIOUS CHANGE INTHE WELLER FAMILY, AND THE UNTIMELYChapter LIIICOMPRISING THE FINAL EXIT OFMr. JINGLE AND JOB TROTTER, WITH A GREATMORNING OF BUSINESS IN GRAYS INNSQUARE?CONCLUDING WITH A DOUBLEKNOCK AT Mr. PERKERS DOOR.1029Chapter LIVCONTAINING SOME PARTICULARSRELATIVE TO THE DOUBLE KNOCK

28、, AND OTHERMATTERS: AMONG WHICH CERTAININTERESTING DISCLOSURES RELATIVE TO Mr.SNODGRASS AND A YOUNG LADY ARE BY NOMEANS IRRELEVANT TO THIS HISTORY1047Chapter LVMr. SOLOMON PELL, ASSISTED BY ASELECT COMMITTEE OF COACHMEN, ARRANGESTHE AFFAIRS OF THE ELDER Mr. WELLER.1069Chapter LVI. AN IMPORTANT CONFE

29、RENCETAKES PLACE BETWEEN Mr. PICKWICK ANDSAMUEL WELLER, AT WHICH HIS PARENTASSISTS?AN OLD GENTLEMAN IN A SNUFF-Charles Dickens ElecBook ClassicsThe Pickwick Papers 13Chapter LVIIIN WHICH THE PICKWICK CLUB ISFINALLY DISSOLVED, AND EVERYTHINGCONCLUDED TO THE SATISFACTION OFEVERYBODY1103Charles Dickens

30、 ElecBook ClassicsThe Pickwick Papers 14Chapter ITHE PICKWICKIANShe first ray of light which illumines the gloom, andconverts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in whichTthe earlier history of the public career of the immortalPickwick would appear to be involved, is derived from the perusalof

31、 the following entry in the Transactions of the Pickwick Club,which the editor of these papers feels the highest pleasure inlaying before his readers, as a proof of the careful attention,indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination, with which hissearch among the multifarious documents confided

32、to him hasbeen conducted.May 12, 1827. Joseph Smiggers, Esq., P.V.P.M.P.C. PerpetualVice-President?Member Pickwick Club, presiding. The followingresolutions unanimously agreed to:?That this Association has heard read, with feelings ofunmingled satisfaction, and unqualified approval, the papercommuni

33、cated by Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C. GeneralChairman?Member Pickwick Club, entitled “Speculations on theSource of the Hampstead Ponds, with some Observations on theTheory of Tittlebats; and that this Association does hereby returnits warmest thanks to the said Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C.

34、,for the same.That while this Association is deeply sensible of the advantageswhich must accrue to the cause of science, from the production towhich they have just adverted?no less than from the unweariedCharles Dickens ElecBook ClassicsThe Pickwick Papers 15researches of Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.

35、M.P.C., in Hornsey,Highgate, Brixton, and Camberwell?they cannot but entertain alively sense of the inestimable benefits which must inevitablyresult from carrying the speculations of that learned man into awider field, from extending his travels, and, consequently,enlarging his sphere of observation

36、, to the advancement ofknowledge, and the diffusion of learning.That, with the view just mentioned, this Association has takeninto its serious consideration a proposal, emanating from theaforesaid, Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., and three otherPickwickians hereinafter named, for forming a new br

37、anch ofUnited Pickwickians, under the title of The Corresponding Societyof the Pickwick Club.That the said proposal has received the sanction and approvalof this Association. That the Corresponding Society of thePickwick Club is therefore hereby constituted; and that SamuelPickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C.

38、, Tracy Tupman, Esq., M.P.C.,Augustus Snodgrass, Esq., M.P.C., and Nathaniel Winkle, Esq.,M.P.C., are hereby nominated and appointed members of thesame; and that they be requested to forward, from time to time,authenticated accounts of their journeys and investigations, oftheir observations of chara

39、cter and manners, and of the whole oftheir adventures, together with all tales and papers to which localscenery or associations may give rise, to the Pickwick Club,stationed in London.That this Association cordially recognises the principle of everymember of the Corresponding Society defraying his o

40、wn travellingexpenses; and that it sees no objection whatever to the members ofthe said society pursuing their inquiries for any length of time theyCharles Dickens ElecBook ClassicsThe Pickwick Papers 16please, upon the same terms.That the members of the aforesaid Corresponding Society be,and are he

41、reby informed, that their proposal to pay the postage oftheir letters, and the carriage of their parcels, has been deliberatedupon by this Association: that this Association considers suchproposal worthy of the great minds from which it emanated, andthat it hereby signifies its perfect acquiescence

42、therein.A casual observer, adds the secretary, to whose notes we areindebted for the following account?a casual observer mightpossibly have remarked nothing extraordinary in the bald head,and circular spectacles, which were intently turned towards histhe secretarys face, during the reading of the ab

43、ove resolutions:to those who knew that the gigantic brain of Pickwick wasworking beneath that forehead, and that the beaming eyes ofPickwick were twinkling behind those glasses, the sight wasindeed an interesting one. There sat the man who had traced totheir source the mighty ponds of Hampstead, and

44、 agitated thescientific world with his Theory of Tittlebats, as calm andunmoved as the deep waters of the one on a frosty day, or as asolitary specimen of the other in the inmost recesses of an earthenjar. And how much more interesting did the spectacle become,when, starting into full life and anima

45、tion, as a simultaneous callfor Pickwick burst from his followers, that illustrious man slowlymounted into the Windsor chair, on which he had been previouslyseated, and addressed the club himself had founded. What a studyfor an artist did that exciting scene present! The eloquentPickwick, with one h

46、and gracefully concealed behind his coat tails,and the other waving in air to assist his glowing declamation; hiselevated position revealing those tights and gaiters, which, hadCharles Dickens ElecBook ClassicsThe Pickwick Papers 17they clothed an ordinary man, might have passed withoutobservation,

47、but which, when Pickwick clothed them?if we mayuse the expression?inspired involuntary awe and respect;surrounded by the men who had volunteered to share the perils ofhis travels, and who were destined to participate in the glories ofhis discoveries. On his right sat Mr. Tracy Tupman?the toosuscepti

48、ble Tupman, who to the wisdom and experience ofmaturer years superadded the enthusiasm and ardour of a boy inthe most interesting and pardonable of human weaknesses?love.Time and feeding had expanded that once romantic form; theblack silk waistcoat had become more and more developed; inchby inch had

49、 the gold watch-chain beneath it disappeared fromwithin the range of Tupmans vision; and gradually had thecapacious chin encroached upon the borders of the white cravat:but the soul of Tupman had known no change?admiration of thefair sex was still its ruling passion. On the left of his great leaders

50、at the poetic Snodgrass, and near him again the sporting Winkle;the former poetically enveloped in a mysterious blue cloak with acanine-skin collar, and the latter communicating additional lustreto a new green shooting-coat, plaid neckerchief, and closely-fitteddrabs.Mr. Pickwicks oration upon this

51、occasion, together with thedebate thereon, is entered on the Transactions of the Club. Bothbear a strong affinity to the discussions of other celebrated bodies;and, as it is always interesting to trace a resemblance between theproceedings of great men, we transfer the entry to these pages.Mr. Pickwick observed says the secretary that fame was dearto the heart of e