Mudfog and Other Sketches

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Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble - Once Mayor of Mudfog
50:25
Full Report of the First Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything
54:02
Full Report of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything
56:56
The Pantomine of Life
23:08
Some Particulars Concerning A Lion
13:40
Mr. Robert Bolton: The "Gentleman Connected With the Press"
13:39
Familiar Epistle From A Parent To A Child Aged Two Years and Two Months
7:25

Mudfog and Other Sketches (1838) is a public domain work.

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In the riverside town of Mudfog, even a damp street and a shabby town hall receive the narrator's grandest compliments. Charles Dickens turns this inflated civic pride into comic sketches of English social life. Nicholas Tulrumble begins as a coal dealer, grows wealthy, and takes an increasing interest in public affairs. His ambitions grow as he watches the Lord Mayor's splendid ceremony in London, where news arrives of his own election as mayor.

The collection also includes reports of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything, with sections devoted to scientific subjects and fanciful fields of study. A passage aboard a crowded vessel follows professors through supper, awkward sleeping arrangements, and a coin toss over a bottle of wine. Small inconveniences receive solemn attention, making the reporting itself part of the joke. Readers interested in Dickens's shorter fiction will find satire built from official language, social pretension, and closely observed everyday habits.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.