The Uncommercial Traveller - Author Charles Dickens

Written between 1860 and 1869 as a series of sketches for 'All the year round' The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of Dickens' non-fiction from the last decade of his life.

Although narrated by an anonymous gentleman abroad, the traveller of the book's title is very much Dickens' 'shadow' self, speaking directly in the first person to his readers.

The traveller even bears an uncanny resemblance to his creator.....