Night Walks: Charles Dickens (Penguin Great Ideas)

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Dickens was always interested in social reform and his walks tend to take him to the seedier parts of the capital. Are we not sometimes troubled by our own sleeping inconsistencies, and do we not vexedly try to account for them or excuse them, just as these do sometimes in respect of their waking delusions?

Charles Dickens es universalmente conocido por sus novelas y sus cuentos; no obstante, este autor abordó un sinfín de géneros, incluidas las crónicas de los paseos que realizaba cuando, embestido por el insomnio, se dedicaba a rondar por la capital inglesa durante la madrugada, las cuales aparecen en “Paseos nocturnos”.Reading this book will make to revisit the challenges in the 21st century, where one out of eight people live in slums globally (UN-HABITAT 2003 Report) and one-fifth of the population go to bed without having food in fast-growing (developing) countries like India (IFPRI). Not far from where the Newgate prison once existed lies Bank home to the Royal Exchange and the Bank of England. Above all, he treats the companions he talks to as equals and with humanity; never condescending and always interested in human nature. The building itself is actually quite pretty and does not scream mental asylum even if there is great big canon in its front yard. His political and social opinions, and especially his affinity for children and his deep genuine empathy, displayed in these articles in the most pleasing of ways, for their cause and suffering, led me to ponder, as if I were a young child, that I walked alongside this magnificent character.

Waterloo bridge holds the great entertainment complex with the royal opera house, Covent garden and the strand north of the river and Southbank south of the river. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. A collection of Dickens' early short stories based on his famous night walks, some of which span a distance of 20-30 miles in a single walk.The stories stand alone by themselves and are indicative of a great and creative imagination based on real life events. Not only because it was a Newbery Medal winner but because it has become one of the great MG classics and has even been made into a movie. It’s sad that there are so many preconceived ideas about YA novels, ideas that show those who speak about them, very often haven’t read any. But the river had an awful look, the buildings on the banks were muffled in black shrouds, and the reflected lights seemed to originate deep in the water, as if the spectres of suicides were holding them to show where they went down.

You can tell that this is a place for white collar workers and weirdly I had not noticed a homeless person nor really any houseless. The author of these articles, is a man, who anyone upon reading his work, would agree is one everyone wishes was in actuality acquainted with. These essays are touching and engaging, without the presence of that melodrama that can exhaust the reader of his fiction. I suspect my ignorance of the time period prevented me from latching on to any narrative flow that might have carried me through.This Penguin Great Ideas edition is a must-read for those interested in Dickens or the London he knew. The essays capture the London of Dickens’ youth and life, bringing to vivid life the people he encountered and the sights he experienced. This collection deserves to be much more widely read, particularly by fans of this genius of literature. Trafalgar square and Covent garden to the north west and the Old Bailey, Bank station and billingsgate market to the north east. Following with my common habit of assigning to each of my favorite authors an adjective, defining, in a sense, the emotion or sensation that arises deep in my breast upon reading his or her work, I cannot find a better description to ascribe Dickens with but by announcing that his work is 'delicious', and if I were to be as vivid as is possible with describing my prevalent feeling I experienced while reading this book, it would be that I felt I was softly sinking, or rather drowning, in a sea of letters, encompassing me with an overwhelming feeling of jubilation and euphoria.