Short Stories by Charles Dickens
1858
The Reprinted Pieces, twenty-eight sketches and essays Dickens wrote for Household Words in the early 1850s. They range from the detective evenings with Inspector Wield and Inspector Field to seaside holidays, a workhouse walk and the Smithfield polemic A Monument of French Folly.
- The Long Voyage
- The Begging-Letter Writer
- A Child’s Dream of a Star
- Our English Watering-Place
- Our French Watering-Place
- Bill-Sticking
- ‘Births. Mrs. Meek, of a Son
- Lying Awake
- The Ghost of Art
- Out of Town
- Out of the Season
- A Poor Man’s Tale of a Patent
- The Noble Savage
- A Flight
- The Detective Police
- Three ‘Detective’ Anecdotes
- The Artful Touch
- The Sofa
- On Duty with Inspector Field
- Down with the Tide
- A Walk in a Workhouse
- Prince Bull. a Fairy Tale
- A Plated Article
- Our Honourable Friend
- Our School
- Our Vestry
- Our Bore
- A Monument of French Folly