Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

by Robert Smith Surtees

71 chapters20h 15mEnglish1852

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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

Chapters (70)

1Chapter 1 - Our Hero

757

2Chapter 2 - Mr Benjamin Buckram

807

3Chapter 3 - Peter Leather

1219

4Chapter 4 - Laverick Wells

581

5Chapter 5 - Mr. Waffles

1170

6Chapter 6 - Laverick Wells

685

7Chapter 7 - Our Hero Arrives at Laverick Wells

937

8Chapter 8 - Old Tom Towler

615

9Chapter 9 - The Meet, The Find and The Finish

2375

10Chapter 10 - The Feeler

596

11Chapter 11 - The Deal, and the Disaster

650

12Chapter 12 - An Old Friend

1258

13Chapter 13 - A New Scheme

934

14Chapter 14 - Jawleyford Court

714

15Chapter 15 - The Jawleyford Establishment

925

16Chapter 16 - The Dinner

679

17Chapter 17 - The Tea

351

18Chapter 18 - The Evening's Reflections

536

19Chapter 19 - The Wet Day

1448

20Chapter 20 - The F.H.H.

1156

21Chapter 21 - A Country Dinner Party

1669

22Chapter 22 - The F.H.H. Again

1305

23Chapter 23 - The Great Run

1784

24Chapter 24 - Lord Scamperdale at Home

1381

25Chapter 25 - Mr Spraggon's Embassy to Jawleyford Court

3191

26Chapter 26 - Mr and Mrs Springwheat

1471

27Chapter 27 - The Finest Run that Ever was Seen

907

28Chapter 28 - The Faithful Groom

796

29Chapter 29 - The Cross-Roads at Dallington Burn

1084

30Chapter 30 - Bolting the Badger

880

31Chapter 31 - Mr Puffington; or The Young Man About Town

933

32Chapter 32 - The Man of P-R-O-R-PERTY

750

33Chapter 33 - A Swell Huntsman

1009

34Chapter 34 - The Beaufort Justice

776

35Chapter 35 - Lord Scamperdale at Jawleyford Court

1120

36Chapter 36 - Mr Bragg's Kennel Management

546

37Chapter 37 - Mr Puffington's Domestic Arrangements

906

38Chapter 38 - A Day with Puffington's Hounds

1213

39Chapter 39 - Writing a Run

1920

40Chapter 40 - A Literary Bloomer

613

41Chapter 41 - A Dinner and a Deal

1736

42Chapter 42 - The Morning's Reflections

982

43Chapter 43 - Another Sick Host

786

44Chapter 44 - Wanted - A Rich God-Papa!

991

45Chapter 45 - The Discomfited Diplomatist

1482

46Chapter 46 - Puddingpote Bower, The Seat of Jogglebury Crowdey Esq.

1303

47Chapter 47 - A Family Breakfast on a Hunting Morning

1354

48Chapter 48 - Hunting the Hounds

781

49Chapter 49 - Country Quarters

605

50Chapter 50 - Sir Harry Scattercash's Hounds

1681

51Chapter 51 - Farmer Peastraw's Dine-Matinee

1728

52Chapter 52 - A Moonlight Ride

339

53Chapter 53 - Puddingpote Bower

840

54Chapter 54 - Family Jars

752

55Chapter 55 - The Trigger

1048

56Chapter 56 - Nonsuch House Again

1685

57Chapter 57 - The Debate

403

58Chapter 58 - Facey Romford

1029

59Chapter 59 - The Adjourned Debate

388

60Chapter 60 - Facey Romford at Home

1232

61Chapter 61 - Nonsuch House Again

517

62Chapter 62 - A Family Breakfast

412

63Chapter 63 - The Rising Generation

1174

64Chapter 64 - The Kennel and the Stud

881

65Chapter 65 - The Hunt

2157

66Chapter 66 - Mr Sponge at Home

289

67Chapter 67 - How they Got Up the 'Grand Aristocratic Steeple-Chase'

903

68Chapter 68 - How the 'Grand Aristocratic' Came Off

1814

69Chapter 69 - How Other Things Came Off

389

70Chapter 70 - How Lord Scamperdale and Co. Came Off

500

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

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