Nonfiction · 1860
The Uncommercial Traveller
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Contents
- I — His General Line of Business
- II — The Shipwreck
- III — Wapping Workhouse
- IV — Two Views of a Cheap Theatre
- V — Poor Mercantile Jack
- VI — Refreshments for Travellers
- VII — Travelling Abroad
- VIII — The Great Tasmania’s Cargo
- IX — City of London Churches
- X — Shy Neighbourhoods
- XI — Tramps
- XII — Dullborough Town
- XIII — Night Walks
- XIV — Chambers
- XV — Nurse’s Stories
- XVI — Arcadian London
- XVII — The Italian Prisoner
- XVIII — The Calais Night Mail
- XIX — Some Recollections of Mortality
- XX — Birthday Celebrations
- XXI — The Short-Timers
- XXII — Bound for the Great Salt Lake
- XXIII — The City of the Absent
- XXIV — An Old Stage-Coaching House
- L — Y Ins T
- XXV — The Boiled Beef of New England
- XXVI — Chatham Dockyard
- XXVII — In the French-Flemish Country
- XXVIII — Medicine Men of Civilisation
- XXIX — Titbull’s Alms-Houses
- XXX — The Ruffian
- XXXI — Aboard Ship
- XXXII — A Small Star in the East
- XXXIII — A Little Dinner in an Hour
- XXXIV — Mr. Barlow
- XXXV — On an Amateur Beat
- XXXVI — A Fly-Leaf in a Life
- XXXVII — A Plea for Total Abstinence
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About the author
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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