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A fascinating look at London life in the 1830s.

Excellent description of the experience of booking and catching a coach in the early morning – it made me cold just reading it!

This is a collection of Dickens' essays, which are based on his extensive and inspirational journeys on foot all around the capital. He wrote notes as he went and mingled with the ordinary working people, criminals, police, lawyers ansd all manner of others, rich and poor: mainly poor. These gave him the inspiration for his novels, which have gifted us a detailed and fascinagting history of the London of the C19th.