Opening with a mock-solemn remonstrance to the bachelors of England on the occasion of Queen Victoria’s announced marriage, Dickens offers a gallery of couples: the young couple, the formal, the loving, the contradictory, those who dote upon their children, the cool, the plausible and more, each caught in a few pages of sharply observed domestic comedy.
Light, knowing early Dickens, published anonymously in 1840. Download the free EPUB.