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Fiction · 1836

Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Charles Dickens

Reading time
about 13.5 h
Length
186,073 words · 350 pages
Structure
58 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People, first published in 1836, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Chapter I — The Beadle. The Parish Engine. The Schoolmaster
  3. Chapter II — The Curate. The Old Lady. The Half-Pay Captain
  4. Chapter III — The Four Sisters
  5. Chapter IV — The Election for Beadle
  6. Chapter V — The Broker’s Man
  7. Chapter VI — The Ladies’ Societies
  8. Chapter VII — Our Next-Door Neighbour
  9. Chapter I — The Streets—Morning
  10. Chapter II — The Streets—Night
  11. Chapter III — Shops and Their Tenants
  12. Chapter IV — Scotland-Yard
  13. Chapter V — Seven Dials
  14. Chapter VI — Meditations in Monmouth-Street
  15. Chapter VII — Hackney-Coach Stands
  16. Chapter VIII — Doctors’ Commons
  17. Chapter IX — London Recreations
  18. Chapter X — The River
  19. Chapter XI — Astley’s
  20. Chapter XII — Greenwich Fair
  21. Chapter XIII — Private Theatres
  22. Chapter XIV — Vauxhall-Gardens by Day
  23. Chapter XV — Early Coaches
  24. Chapter XVI — Omnibuses
  25. Chapter XVII — The Last Cab-Driver, and the First Omnibus Cad
  26. Chapter XVIII — A Parliamentary Sketch
  27. Chapter XIX — Public Dinners
  28. Chapter XX — The First of May
  29. Chapter XXI — Brokers’ and Marine-Store Shops
  30. Chapter XXII — Gin-Shops
  31. Chapter XXIII — The Pawnbroker’s Shop
  32. Chapter XXIV — Criminal Courts
  33. Chapter XXV — A Visit to Newgate
  34. Chapter I — Thoughts About People
  35. Chapter II — A Christmas Dinner
  36. Chapter III — The New Year
  37. Chapter IV — Miss Evans and the Eagle
  38. Chapter V — The Parlour Orator
  39. Chapter VI — The Hospital Patient
  40. Chapter VII — The Misplaced Attachment of Mr. John Dounce
  41. Chapter VIII — The Mistaken Milliner. A Tale of Ambition
  42. Chapter IX — The Dancing Academy
  43. Chapter X — Shabby-Genteel People
  44. Chapter XI — Making a Night of It
  45. Chapter XII — The Prisoners’ Van
  46. Chapter I — The Boarding-House
  47. Chapter the Second
  48. Chapter II — Mr. Minns and His Cousin
  49. Chapter III — Sentiment
  50. Chapter IV — The Tuggses at Ramsgate
  51. Chapter V — Horatio Sparkins
  52. Chapter VI — The Black Veil
  53. Chapter VII — The Steam Excursion
  54. Chapter VIII — The Great Winglebury Duel
  55. Chapter IX — Mrs. Joseph Porter
  56. Chapter the First
  57. Chapter the Second
  58. Chapter XI — The Bloomsbury Christening
  59. Chapter XII — The Drunkard’s Death

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Charles Dickens

1812–1870 · Victorian

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was born at Portsmouth and worked as a child in a blacking factory while his father was imprisoned for debt — an experience he drew on for the rest of his life. A parliamentary reporter by twenty, he became the most popular novelist in English with The Pickwick Papers (1836–37) and never lost that place: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1861) followed. He died at Gad’s Hill, Kent.

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