The Pickwick Papers, Version 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Pickwick Papers, Version 2, credited to Charles Dickens, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens. Read by Debra Lynn. A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent leader, Mr. Pickwick. Join him and his friends, Winkle, Snodgrass, and Tupman, as they tour the country in search of adventures, knowledge, and stories. Along the way, they have their share of mishaps, and meet plenty of interesting characters, both the good and the not so good. (Mr. Pickwick's dedicated manservant, Sam Weller, is a scene-stealer sure to delight just about everybody.) You may shed a few tears along the way, but usually of the pleasant sort. This is a mostly lighthearted and humorous tale, with a number of subplots woven in, in Dickens’ incomparable style. (Introduction by Debra Lynn)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Pickwick Papers, Version 2
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 57
• Listed recording duration: 29:43:02

Catalogue topics

• English
• Dickens

Opening tracks: first 24 of 57

1. 01 - The Pickwickians — 13:37
2. 02 - The first Day's Journey, and the first Evening's Adventures; with their Consequences — 1:03:37
3. 03 - A New Acquaintance--The Stroller's Tale--A Disagreeable Interruption, And An Unpleasant Encounter — 28:45
4. 04 - A Field Day and Bivouac--More new Friends--An Invitation to the Country — 27:52
5. 05 - A short one--Showing, among other Matters, how Mr. Pickwick undertook to drive, and Mr. Winkle to ride, and how they both did it — 22:08
6. 06 - An old-fashioned Card-party--The Clergyman's verses--The Story of the Convict's Return — 33:31
7. 07 - 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 — 32:19
8. 08 - Strongly illustrative of the Position, that the Course of True Love is not a Railway — 29:22
9. 09 - A Discovery and a Chase — 20:07
10. 10 - Clearing up all Doubts (if any existed) of the Disinterestedness of Mr. A. Jingle's Character — 30:14
11. 11 - 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 — 42:08
12. 12 - Descriptive of a very important Proceeding on the Part of Mr. Pickwick; no less an Epoch in his Life, than in this History — 13:43
13. 13 - 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 — 41:09
14. 14 - Comprising a brief Description of the Company at the Peacock assembled; and a Tale told by a Bagman — 37:55
15. 15 - 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 — 31:23
16. 16 - Too full of Adventure to be briefly described — 40:57
17. 17 - Showing that an Attack of Rheumatism, in some Cases, acts as a Quickener to inventive Genius — 21:03
18. 18 - Briefly illustrative of two Points; first, the Power of Hysterics, and, secondly, the Force of Circumstances — 23:43
19. 19 - A pleasant Day with an unpleasant Termination — 31:30
20. 20 - 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 — 35:48
21. 21 - In which the old Man launches forth into his favourite Theme, and relates a Story about a queer Client — 41:40
22. 22 - Mr. Pickwick journeys to Ipswich and meets with a romantic Adventure with a middle-aged Lady in yellow Curl-papers — 36:01
23. 23 - In which Mr. Samuel Weller begins to devote his Energies to the Return Match between himself and Mr. Trotter — 19:14
24. 24 - Wherein Mr. Peter Magnus grows jealous, and the middle-aged Lady apprehensive, which brings the Pickwickians within the Grasp of the Law — 34:45

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