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The Uncommercial Traveller

Charles Dickens

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 352 pages

The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of essays and sketches by Charles Dickens, originally published in his magazine All the Year Round. Its wandering narrator observes London streets, workhouses, theatres, ships, and travel abroad with humour and social sympathy. It is worth listening for its vivid Victorian scenes and Dickens's conversational prose.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. The Uncommercial Traveller
  2. CONTENTS
  3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. I HIS GENERAL LINE OF BUSINESS
  5. II THE SHIPWRECK
  6. III WAPPING WORKHOUSE
  7. IV TWO VIEWS OF A CHEAP THEATRE
  8. V POOR MERCANTILE JACK
  9. VI REFRESHMENTS FOR TRAVELLERS
  10. VII TRAVELLING ABROAD
  11. VIII THE GREAT TASMANIA’S CARGO
  12. IX CITY OF LONDON CHURCHES
  13. X SHY NEIGHBOURHOODS
  14. XI TRAMPS
  15. XII DULLBOROUGH TOWN
  16. XIII NIGHT WALKS
  17. XIV CHAMBERS
  18. XV NURSE’S STORIES
  19. XVI ARCADIAN LONDON
  20. XVII THE ITALIAN PRISONER
  21. XVIII THE CALAIS NIGHT MAIL
  22. XIX SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF MORTALITY
  23. XX BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
  24. XXI THE SHORT-TIMERS
  25. XXII BOUND FOR THE GREAT SALT LAKE
  26. XXIII THE CITY OF THE ABSENT
  27. XXIV AN OLD STAGE-COACHING HOUSE
  28. XXV THE BOILED BEEF OF NEW ENGLAND
  29. XXVI CHATHAM DOCKYARD
  30. XXVII IN THE FRENCH-FLEMISH COUNTRY

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