《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)。
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.
- 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