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The Uncommercial Traveller
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Join Dickens on his night walks through London and discover the hidden night life of Victorian society. Dickens often suffered from insomnia and used his night-time wanderings to collect impressions and ideas giving him an insight into some of the hidden aspects of Victorian London. He incorporated these discoveries into many sketches and stories of this book.
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Clocking in at the end of Dickens' 24 major works, The Uncommercial Traveller is a series of his sketches, primarily non-fiction, that were published throughout the 1860s, the last decade of his life. It's quite fitting, given that Sketches by Boz was the work that first established his popularity, however whereas that one included more tales of sentimentalism or mystery, this is basically entirely sketches of life, and what it's like to live in England during this decade. I have to say, I find this rather wonderful. The pieces are of their age and written by an older person of the time, so they're often confused about things that I'm sure made plenty of sense to the younger generation! But they're also wonderful examples of Dickens' vivid eye for detail, and smart mixtures of social insight with character details. Whether it's anthropomorphising neighbourhood dogs, dryly theorising on bad restaurants for travellers, moralising on how returned soldiers are treated, or pondering the encroachment of modernity on everyday life, the author is a captivating cataloguer of his era. This is probably more for Dickens completists than casual readers, but it's a truly interesting social document.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In these papers, published in 'All The Year Round; between 1860 and 1870, Dickens at last achieved the status of an essayist in the Addison/Steele/Johnson tradition to which he had aspired ever since 'Master Humphrey's Clock'. Whether dealing with an outward-bound shipload of Mormons, a children's hospital, a cheap London theatre, a nightmare birthday-party or a mysterious human comedy glimpsed at a window in Strassburg, he is as passionate, as obsessive, as observant, as mannered and (especially on food and drink) as hilarious as ever; but the colouring is more subdued than of old, and sadness and sorrow for the irretrievable past are never far away.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Unremarkable collection of observations. Not his best venue -- no time for plot and character development. The best of them were his pieces on shipwrecks. Very moody stuff.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a 1870s edition of Dickens´articles and sketches for his journal All Year Around. Suffering from insomnia, the author goes wandering the streets of London at night-time and incorporates whatever he gathers in sketches, some of which he includes in this magnificent book written during the period 1860-1869. This edition is also decorated with four extraordinary and quite realistic illustrations. Unfortunately, we are not given the name of the artist. But... hold on, is that the author himself in the third illustration?
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