博兹札记 (1836)

《博兹札记》（Sketches by Boz），英国作家狄更斯的第一部散文集，1836年出版，当时他还是英国《晨报》的国会记者，专门采访英国下议院的政策辩论，也时常采访各种选举活动。这段时间他经常在期刊上发表文章、短篇作品，并以“博兹”为笔名，文章笔调轻松，内容诙谐的风格，后来两次结集出版为“博兹札记”，第一版由政治连环漫画家克鲁克香克（George Cruikshank）插图。博兹札记虽未让狄更斯名躁一时，但引起一家出版商的青睐，请他为“运动员画册月刊”写说明文字，他原本不懂玩球、猎狐，但期间因原画家猝逝，使得狄更斯反客为主、掌握主动，骋驰想像空间，于是出现后来的“匹克威克外传”（The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club）。

内容

博兹札记（Sketches by Boz）的内容:

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