In 1859, Charles Dickens launched his own newspaper, "All the Year Round". Unsurprisingly, Dickens included many short pieces by--guess who? Dickens was a reporter, a flaneur, and an insomniac, all three traits which prompted him incessantly to walk about, and observe. Thirty-seven of these stories he collected under the name of "The Uncommercial Traveller". - Summary by Mark Leder
Chapters
1 Chapter I, His General Line of Business 3 min 2 Chapter II, The Shipwreck 39 min 3 Chapter III, Wapping Workhouse 30 min 4 Chapter IV, Two Views of a Cheap Theatre 29 min 5 Chapter V, Poor Mercantile Jack 32 min 6 Chapter VI, Refreshments for Travellers 25 min 7 Chapter VII, Travelling Abroad 33 min 8 Chapter VIII, The Great Tasmania's Cargo 24 min 9 Chapter IX, City of London Churches 29 min 10 Chapter X, Shy Neighborhoods 28 min 11 Chapter XI, Tramps 33 min 12 Chapter XII, Dullborough Town 30 min 13 Chapter XIII, Night Walks 26 min 14 Chapter XIV, Chambers 34 min 15 Chapter XV, Nurse's Stories 31 min 16 Chapter XVI, Arcadian London 27 min 17 Chapter XVII, The Italian Prisoner 27 min 18 Chapter XVIII, The Calais Night Mail 24 min 19 Chapter XIX, Some Recollections of Mortality 28 min 20 Chapter XX, Birthday Celebrations 27 min 21 Chapter XXI, The Short-Timers 30 min 22 Chapter XXII, Bound for the Great Salt Lake 33 min 23 Chapter XXIII, The City of the Absent 22 min 24 Chapter XXIV, An Old Stage-coaching House 22 min 25 Chapter XXV; The Boiled Beef of New England 25 min 26 Chapter XXVI, Chatham Dockyard 27 min 27 Chapter XXVII, In the French-Flemish Country 32 min 28 Chapter XXVIII, Medicine Men of Civilisation 24 min 29 Chapter XXIX, Titbull's Alms-Houses 29 min 30 Chapter XXX, The Ruffian 21 min 31 Chapter XXXI, Aboard Ship 29 min 32 Chapter XXXII, A Small Star in the East 31 min 33 Chapter XXXIII, A Little Dinner in an Hour 19 min 34 Chapter XXXIV, Mr. Barlow 17 min 35 Chapter XXXV, On an Amateur Beat 22 min 36 Chapter XXXVI, A Fly-Leaf in a Life 12 min 37 Chapter XXXVII, A Plea for Total Abstinence 12 min
