Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Humorous Fiction

Authors: Robert Smith Surtees In Year : 1852

Book Language: English

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

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