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Preface and Chapter 1
11:49 -
Chapter 2
11:35 -
Chapter 3
18:26 -
Chapter 4
10:06 -
Chapter 5
16:15 -
Chapter 6
17:31 -
Chapter 7
12:30 -
Chapter 8
11:25 -
Chapter 9
9:31 -
Chapter 10
8:07 -
Chapter 11
25:38 -
Chapter 12
23:24 -
Chapter 13
19:45 -
Chapter 14
12:32 -
Chapter 15
16:35 -
Chapter 16
13:20 -
Chapter 17
15:59 -
Chapter 18
7:08 -
Chapter 19
20:30 -
Chapter 20
12:12 -
Chapter 21
26:27 -
Chapter 22
17:30 -
Chapter 23
18:27 -
Chapter 24
14:21 -
Chapter 25
17:31 -
Chapter 26
20:32 -
Chapter 27
14:19 -
Chapter 28
19:33 -
Chapter 29
19:34 -
Chapter 30
11:40 -
Chapter 31
21:49 -
Chapter 32
19:04 -
Chapter 33
21:09 -
Chapter 34
15:52 -
Chapter 35
19:57 -
Chapter 36
21:20 -
Chapter 37
11:59 -
Chapter 38
24:00 -
Chapter 39
20:35 -
Chapter 40
18:22 -
Chapter 41
24:32 -
Chapter 42
9:05 -
Chapter 43
24:18 -
Chapter 44
17:13 -
Chapter 45
13:52 -
Chapter 46
22:19 -
Chapter 47
18:00 -
Chapter 48
11:57 -
Chapter 49
22:14 -
Chapter 50
23:33 -
Chapter 51
6:24 -
Chapter 52
20:27 -
Chapter 53
20:55 -
Chapter 54
32:47 -
Chapter 55
16:47 -
Chapter 56
16:06 -
Chapter 57
9:55 -
Chapter 58
18:26 -
Chapter 59
12:47 -
Chapter 60
10:40 -
Chapter 61
29:32 -
Chapter 62
15:32 -
Chapter 63
9:40
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Billy Pringle's ambitions begin with careful clothes and a mother who shapes both his appearance and his outlook. Around him, the Pringle family's business dealings sit uneasily beside its claims to respectability. Robert Smith Surtees builds this 1858 comic novel around the habits of nineteenth-century English society, where money, manners and sporting connections help determine a person's standing.
Country visits and fox hunting carry that scrutiny into another setting. At Sir Moses's house, worn stables receive visiting horses while guests gather indoors for gossip and introductions. Billy's arrival renews the company's conversation, and the narrator measures the guests by their contributions to the local hunt. Readers interested in social comedy will find attention to the small practical details behind grand appearances: clothes, hospitality, stable care and the financial bargains that sustain a fashionable circle.
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- Robert Smith Surtees
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- Genre
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