| Description |
xx, 688 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
The New Oxford illustrated Dickens
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| 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--mornng ; 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 -- Characters: 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 ; Mr. Minns and his cousin ; Sentiment ; The Tuggses at Ramsgate ; Horation Sparkins ; The black veil ; The steam excursion ; The great Winglebury duel ; Mrs. Joseph Porter ; A passage in the life of Mr. Watkins Tottle ; The Bloomsbury christening ; The drunkard's death -- Sketches of young gentlemen -- Sketches of young couples -- The mudfrog and other sketches. |
| Subject |
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0192545183 |
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