匹克威克外传（英文版）:
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《匹克威克外传》说的是匹克威克先生以及他的朋友和跟班出外旅行的经历。他们原本为了增长见识，去国内各处游历。在这过程中，他们接触到了现实生活的各个方面。他们天真幼稚，善良轻信，遇到了许多麻烦，陷入到种种不愉快的境地之中。小说围绕两个主题展开，前半部谈的主要是匹克威克同流氓冒险家金格尔的斗争，后半部写的主要是房东巴德尔太太指控匹克威克毁弃婚约的诉讼案件。匹克威克先生尽管屡次受到金格尔的欺骗，吃了一次又一次的苦头，但最后在金格尔走投无路之时，还是伸出援手，帮助他改恶从善，重新做人。而在巴德尔太太一案中，匹克威克先生饱受诡计多端、贪得无厌的恶律师道孙和福格的讹诈，并受到不公正的判决，但他坚持原则，不肯妥协，最后被关进监狱。狱中服刑的经历使他看到了司法制度的黑暗场面。全书结尾时匹克威克出狱后退隐回家，过上了安宁的生活。
Written for publication as a serial, The Pickwick Papers is a sequence of loosely-related adventures. The novel-s main character, Mr. Samuel Pickwick, Esquire, is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, and the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. To extend his researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of life, he suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" (Mr. Nathaniel Winkle, Mr. Augustus Snodgrass, and Mr. Tracy Tupman) should make journeys to remote places from London and report on their findings to the members of the club. Their travels throughout the English countryside provide the chief theme of the novel.
Its main literary value and appeal is formed by its numerous memorable characters. Each character in The Pickwick Papers, as in many other Dickens novels, is drawn comically, often with exaggerated personalities. Alfred Jingle provides an aura of comic villainy. His misadventures repeatedly land the Pickwickians in trouble. These include Jingle-s elopement with the spinster, Aunt Rachael of Dingley Dell manor, misadventures with Dr. Slammer, and others.
Other notable adventures include Mr. Pickwick-s legal case against his landlady, Mrs Bardell, who (through an apparent misunderstanding on her part) is suing him for the breach of promise to marry her. Another is Mr. Pickwick-s incarceration at Fleet prison for his stubborn refusal to pay the compensation to her; the unscrupulous Dodson and Fogg-s law firm prosecuted poor Pickwick.
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