Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

Robert Smith Surtees

Sprache: English

Genres: Humorvolle Literatur

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1. Preface
2. Chapter 1 - Our Hero
3. Chapter 2 - Mr Benjamin Buckram
4. Chapter 3 - Peter Leather
5. Chapter 4 - Laverick Wells
6. Chapter 5 - Mr. Waffles
7. Chapter 6 - Laverick Wells
8. Chapter 7 - Our Hero Arrives at Laverick Wells
9. Chapter 8 - Old Tom Towler
10. Chapter 9 - The Meet, The Find and The Finish
11. Chapter 10 - The Feeler
12. Chapter 11 - The Deal, and the Disaster
13. Chapter 12 - An Old Friend
14. Chapter 13 - A New Scheme
15. Chapter 14 - Jawleyford Court
16. Chapter 15 - The Jawleyford Establishment
17. Chapter 16 - The Dinner
18. Chapter 17 - The Tea
19. Chapter 18 - The Evening's Reflections
20. Chapter 19 - The Wet Day
21. Chapter 20 - The F.H.H.
22. Chapter 21 - A Country Dinner Party
23. Chapter 22 - The F.H.H. Again
24. Chapter 23 - The Great Run
25. Chapter 24 - Lord Scamperdale at Home
26. Chapter 25 - Mr Spraggon's Embassy to Jawleyford Court
27. Chapter 26 - Mr and Mrs Springwheat
28. Chapter 27 - The Finest Run that Ever was Seen
29. Chapter 28 - The Faithful Groom
30. Chapter 29 - The Cross-Roads at Dallington Burn
31. Chapter 30 - Bolting the Badger
32. Chapter 31 - Mr Puffington; or The Young Man About Town
33. Chapter 32 - The Man of P-R-O-R-PERTY
34. Chapter 33 - A Swell Huntsman
35. Chapter 34 - The Beaufort Justice
36. Chapter 35 - Lord Scamperdale at Jawleyford Court
37. Chapter 36 - Mr Bragg's Kennel Management
38. Chapter 37 - Mr Puffington's Domestic Arrangements
39. Chapter 38 - A Day with Puffington's Hounds
40. Chapter 39 - Writing a Run
41. Chapter 40 - A Literary Bloomer
42. Chapter 41 - A Dinner and a Deal
43. Chapter 42 - The Morning's Reflections
44. Chapter 43 - Another Sick Host
45. Chapter 44 - Wanted - A Rich God-Papa!
46. Chapter 45 - The Discomfited Diplomatist
47. Chapter 46 - Puddingpote Bower, The Seat of Jogglebury Crowdey Esq.
48. Chapter 47 - A Family Breakfast on a Hunting Morning
49. Chapter 48 - Hunting the Hounds
50. Chapter 49 - Country Quarters
51. Chapter 50 - Sir Harry Scattercash's Hounds
52. Chapter 51 - Farmer Peastraw's Dine-Matinee
53. Chapter 52 - A Moonlight Ride
54. Chapter 53 - Puddingpote Bower
55. Chapter 54 - Family Jars
56. Chapter 55 - The Trigger
57. Chapter 56 - Nonsuch House Again
58. Chapter 57 - The Debate
59. Chapter 58 - Facey Romford
60. Chapter 59 - The Adjourned Debate
61. Chapter 60 - Facey Romford at Home
62. Chapter 61 - Nonsuch House Again
63. Chapter 62 - A Family Breakfast
64. Chapter 63 - The Rising Generation
65. Chapter 64 - The Kennel and the Stud
66. Chapter 65 - The Hunt
67. Chapter 66 - Mr Sponge at Home
68. Chapter 67 - How they Got Up the 'Grand Aristocratic Steeple-Chase'
69. Chapter 68 - How the 'Grand Aristocratic' Came Off
70. Chapter 69 - How Other Things Came Off
71. Chapter 70 - How Lord Scamperdale and Co. Came Off

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Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure in creating comic personalities and dialogue and resembles the later Pickwick Papers of Dickens, whose style may well have been influenced by Surtees. The story follows the eponymous Soapy Sponge, a Victorian freeloader and confidence trickster, who manages to work his way around the gentrified houses of southern England, fox-hunting as he goes. - Summary by Kevin Green