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The Uncommercial Traveller — Charles Dickens

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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Time and his Wife
The Uncommercial
Traveller
By CHARLES DICKENS
With Illustrations by Harry Furniss and A. J. Goodman
LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LD.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1905
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. His General Line of Business
CHAPTER II. The Shipwreck
CHAPTER III. Wapping Workhouse
CHAPTER IV. Two Views of a Cheap Theatre
CHAPTER V. Poor Mercantile Jack

CHAPTER VI. Refreshments for Travellers
CHAPTER VII. Travelling Abroad
CHAPTER VIII. The Great Tasmania’s Cargo
CHAPTER IX. City of London Churches
CHAPTER X. Shy Neighbourhoods
CHAPTER XI. Tramps
CHAPTER XII. Dullborough Town
CHAPTER XIII. Night Walks
CHAPTER XIV. Chambers
CHAPTER XV. Nurse’s Stories
CHAPTER XVI. Arcadian London
CHAPTER XVII. The Italian Prisoner
CHAPTER XVIII. The Calais Night Mail
CHAPTER XIX. Some Recollections of Mortality
CHAPTER XX. Birthday Celebrations
CHAPTER XXI. The Short-Timers
CHAPTER XXII. Bound for the Great Salt Lake
CHAPTER XXIII. The City of the Absent
CHAPTER XXIV. An Old Stage-coaching House
CHAPTER XXV. The Boiled Beef of New England
CHAPTER XXVI. Chatham Dockyard
CHAPTER XXVII. In the French-Flemish Country
CHAPTER XXVIII. Medicine Men of Civilisation
CHAPTER XXIX. Titbull’s Alms-Houses
CHAPTER XXX. The Ruffian
CHAPTER XXXI. Aboard Ship
CHAPTER XXXII. A Small Star in the East
CHAPTER XXXIII. A Little Dinner in an Hour
CHAPTER XXXIV. Mr. Barlow
CHAPTER XXXV. On an Amateur Beat
CHAPTER XXXVI. A Fly-Leaf in a Life

CHAPTER XXXVII. A Plea for Total Abstinence
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Time and his Wife
A Cheap Theatre
The City Personage
Titbull’s Alms-Houses

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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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