Chapter 1 of The Pickwick Papers is here in full — 126 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of The Pickwick Papers is here in full — 126 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
1. The Pickwickians 2. The first Day’s Journey, and the first Evening’s Adventures; with their Consequences 3. A new Acquaintance--The Stroller’s Tale--A disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter 4. A Field Day and Bivouac--More new Friends--An Invitation to the Country 5.
Chapter 1 of The Pickwick Papers is here in full — 126 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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From this reading The Pickwickians 2.
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From this reading The first Day’s Journey, and the first Evening’s Adventures; with their Consequences 3.
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From this reading A new Acquaintance--The Stroller’s Tale--A disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter 4.
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From this reading A Field Day and Bivouac--More new Friends--An Invitation to the Country 5.
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From this reading A new Acquaintance--The Stroller’s Tale--A disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter 4.
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From this reading A new Acquaintance--The Stroller’s Tale--A disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter 4.
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From this reading The first Day’s Journey, and the first Evening’s Adventures; with their Consequences 3.
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From this reading A new Acquaintance--The Stroller’s Tale--A disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter 4.
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From this reading The first Day’s Journey, and the first Evening’s Adventures; with their Consequences 3.
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From this reading A Field Day and Bivouac--More new Friends--An Invitation to the Country 5.
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From this reading The first Day’s Journey, and the first Evening’s Adventures; with their Consequences 3.
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From this reading A Field Day and Bivouac--More new Friends--An Invitation to the Country 5.
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From this reading A Field Day and Bivouac--More new Friends--An Invitation to the Country 5.
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From this reading The first Day’s Journey, and the first Evening’s Adventures; with their Consequences 3.
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From this reading A new Acquaintance--The Stroller’s Tale--A disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter 4.
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From this reading A new Acquaintance--The Stroller’s Tale--A disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter 4.
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From this reading The first Day’s Journey, and the first Evening’s Adventures; with their Consequences 3.
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From this reading A Field Day and Bivouac--More new Friends--An Invitation to the Country 5.
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From this reading The first Day’s Journey, and the first Evening’s Adventures; with their Consequences 3.
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From this reading A Field Day and Bivouac--More new Friends--An Invitation to the Country 5.
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From this reading A new Acquaintance--The Stroller’s Tale--A disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter 4.
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From this reading A Field Day and Bivouac--More new Friends--An Invitation to the Country 5.
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From this reading The first Day’s Journey, and the first Evening’s Adventures; with their Consequences 3.
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From this reading A Field Day and Bivouac--More new Friends--An Invitation to the Country 5.
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From this reading A new Acquaintance--The Stroller’s Tale--A disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter 4.
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From this reading The Pickwickians 2.
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From this reading A new Acquaintance--The Stroller’s Tale--A disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter 4.
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From this reading A new Acquaintance--The Stroller’s Tale--A disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter 4.
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From this reading The Pickwickians 2.
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From this reading The first Day’s Journey, and the first Evening’s Adventures; with their Consequences 3.
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From this reading A Field Day and Bivouac--More new Friends--An Invitation to the Country 5.
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From this reading A new Acquaintance--The Stroller’s Tale--A disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter 4.
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From this reading The first Day’s Journey, and the first Evening’s Adventures; with their Consequences 3.
Chapter 1 of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens holds 126 sentences, grouped into 26 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 1 holds 126 sentences of The Pickwick Papers, unabridged, divided into 26 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 126 sentences, grouped into 26 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 26 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 26 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 1 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 600 minutes of reading across 2917 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through The Pickwick Papers section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Pickwick Papers, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
