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 
 Sketches by Boz - Easy to read HTML

Category:英國文學
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