Dickens Charles. The Uncommercial Traveller

A collection of literary sketches and reminiscences.Of particular interest are the elements of autobiography Dickens includes such as his reminiscences and opinions on his childhood home town, Chatham, under the name Dullborough. He also describes the period of enforced inactivity — A Fly-Leaf in Life — he was forced to endure after a collapse due to a hectic schedule of public readings. In Nurse's Stories he revealed one of the sources of his story telling talents and his love of ghost stories: the terrifying tales his nurse delighted in telling the young author.His General Line of Business
The Shipwreck
Wapping Workhouse
Two Views of a Cheap Theatre
Poor Mercantile Jack
Refreshments for Travellers
Travelling Abroad
The Great Tasmania's Cargo
City of London Churches
Shy Neighbourhoods
Tramps
Dullborough Town
Night Walks
Chambers
Nurse's Stories
Arcadian London
The Italian Prisoner
The Calais Night Mail
Some Recollections of Mortality
Birthday Celebrations
The Short-Timers
Bound for the Great Salt Lake
The City of the Absent
An Old Stage-Coaching House
The Boiled Beef of New England
Chatham Dockyard
n the French-Flemish Country
Medicine Men of Civilisation
Titbull's Alms-Houses
The Ruffian
Aboard Ship
A Small Star in the East
A Little Dinner in an Hour
Mr. Barlow
On an Amateur Beat
A Fly-Leaf in a Life
A Plea for Total Abstinence