Addressing political and social issues, denouncing injustices, and exposing hypocrisy and self-righteousness are matters that were not only close to the heart of perhaps the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens (1812-1870), but also, and above all, to the tireless reporter and gifted essayist Dickens. In his role as the "Uncommercial Traveller," he wanders the world—both large and small, between day and night, between wakefulness and dreams—in a casual manner reminiscent of a flâneur, while possessing a keen observational ability. This volume gathers selected gems from Dickens' journalistic and essayistic compendium, focusing on nocturnal phenomena and experiences. In all of them, the wit and sarcasm of the inimitable Dickensian tone sparkle.