"The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens, published in 1860-1861.In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller articles would be among his main contributions. He seems to have chosen the title and persona of the Uncommercial Traveller as a result of a speech he gave on 22 December 1859 to the Commercial Travellers' School London in his role as honorary chairman and treasurer. The persona sits well with a writer who liked to travel, not only as a tourist, but also to research and report what he found visiting Europe, America and giving book readings throughout Britain. He did not seem content to rest late in his career when he had attained wealth and comfort and continued travelling locally, walking the streets of London in the mould of the flâneur, a 'gentleman stroller of city streets'. He often suffered from insomnia and his night-time wanderings gave him an insight into some of the hidden aspects of Victorian London, details of which he also incorporated into his novels."

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

Charles Dickens is considered to be one of the greatest British writers of all times. He was a social activist who wrote plays and novels during the Victorian period. His most famous novels include Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, and David Copperfield. The following stories are included in this volume. 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 -- In 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.

Charles Dickens, generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age, was known as 'The Inimitable', not least for his distinctive style of writing. This collection of twelve essays addresses the essential but often overlooked subject of Dickens's style, with each essay discussing a particular feature of his writing. All the essays consider Dickens's style conceptually, and they read it closely, demonstrating the ways it works on particular occasions. They show that style is not simply an aesthetic quality isolated from the deepest meanings of Dickens's fiction, but that it is inextricably involved with all kinds of historical, political and ideological concerns. Written in a lively and accessible manner by leading Dickens scholars, the collection ranges across all Dickens's writing, including the novels, journalism and letters.