博兹札记

《博茲札記》（Sketches by Boz），英國作家狄更斯的第一部散文集，1836年出版，當時他還是英國《晨報》的國會記者，專門採訪英國下議院的政策辯論，也時常採訪各種選舉活動。這段時間他經常在期刊上發表文章、短篇作品，並以“博茲”為筆名，文章筆調輕鬆，內容詼諧的風格，後來兩次結集出版為「博茲札記」，第一版由政治連環漫畫家克魯克香克（George Cruikshank）插圖。博茲札記雖未讓狄更斯名躁一時，但引起一家出版商的青睞，請他為“運動員畫冊月刊”寫說明文字，他原本不懂玩球、獵狐，但期間因原畫家猝逝，使得狄更斯反客為主、掌握主動，騁馳想像空間，於是出現後來的「匹克威克外傳」（The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club）。

內容

博茲札記（Sketches by Boz）的內容:

• 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 Tparkins
  • 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

外部連結

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