Sketches by Boz

by Charles John Huffam Dickens

Contents

Our parish

• The beadle. The parish engine. The schoolmaster.
• The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain
• The four sisters
• The election for beadle
• The broker's man
• The ladies' societies
• Our next-door neighbour

Scenes

• The streets - morning
• The streets - night
• Shops and their tenants
• Scotland Yard
• Seven Dials
• Meditations in Monmouth-Street
• Hackney-coach stands
• Doctors' Commons
• London recreations
• The river
• Astley's
• Greenwich fair
• Private theatres
• Vauxhall Gardens by day
• Early coaches
• Omnibuses
• The last cab-driver, and the first omnibus cad
• A parliamentary sketch
• Public dinners
• The first of may
• Brokers' and marine-store shops
• Gin-shops
• The pawnbroker's shop
• Criminal courts
• A visit to Newgate

Thoughts about people

• Thoughts about people
• A Christmas dinner
• The New Year
• Miss Evans and the eagle
• The parlour orator
• The hospital patient
• The misplaced attachment of Mr. John Dounce
• The mistaken milliner. A tale of ambition
• The dancing academy
• Shabby-genteel people
• Making a night of it
• The prisoners' van

Tales

• The boarding-house
  • Chapter the first.
  • Chapter the second.
• Mr. Minns and his cousin
• Sentiment
• The Tuggses at Ramsgate
• Horatio Sparkins
• The black veil
• The steam excursion
• The great Winglebury duel
• Mrs. Joseph Porter
• A passage in the life of Mr. Watkins Tottle
  • Chapter the first.
  • Chapter the second.
• The Bloomsbury christening
• The drunkard's death