The Uncommercial Traveller;With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton (Paperback)

from Menophanes

In 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'...

from 67Daniel

This 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 ...

from 67Daniel

This 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 ...

from AliceAnna

Unremarkable 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.

from Menophanes

In 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'...