A Child's History of England

His account of the 1842 tour, written after the enthusiasm wore off. He praises what works and is blunt about slavery and the press.

Charles Dickens

Dickens spent a year in Italy and wrote it up as a traveller rather than a novelist. Cities, roads, processions and ruins, seen at ground level.

Charles Dickens

The journalism of his last decade, walking London at night and reporting what he found. The closest thing to hearing him think out loud.

Charles Dickens