•  A New and Great Design Was Born

•  Like a Shot Silk of Black and Crimson

•  The Characters Who Do Not Affect the Stories

•  A Bestial Nightmare: Hungerford Market

•  Practical Sentimentalism

•  To Bless and Get Rid

•  Dickens's Openings

•  The Hero Still Wanders from Place to Place

•  The Prodigal Father: John Dickens as Wilkins Micawber

•  Against the Dignity and Liberty of the Human Soul

•  An Almost Malicious Maturity of Satire

•  A Human Document