02079cam a22003133u 4500001000400000003000700004005001700011006000200028007000500030008004100035040001100076041001700087050000700104100003300111245003000144264005100174300004700225336002600272337002600298338003600324500008400360500003100444505045000475508008800925520060001013534004501613653006601658856004101724912UtSlPG20260610133037.0mcr n260607r1997||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aDickens, Charles,d1812-187010aMudfog and Other Sketches 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c1997  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mudfog_Papers  aRelease date is 1997-05-010 aPublic life of Mr. Tulrumble, once mayor of Mudfog -- Full report of the first meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything -- Full report of the second meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything -- The pantomime of life -- Some particulars concerning a lion -- Mr. Robert Bolton, the "gentleman connected with the press" -- Familiar epistle from a parent to a child aged two years and two months.  aTranscribed from the 1903 Chapman and Hall _Sketches by Boz_ edition by David Price  a"Mudfog and Other Sketches" by Charles Dickens is a collection of stories published from 1837 to 1838 in Bentley's Miscellany. The anthology centers on the fictional Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything, a satirical parody of Victorian learned societies. Set in the provincial town of Mudfog—based on Dickens's childhood home of Chatham—these pieces blend humor and social commentary through accounts of pompous meetings, theatrical reflections, and character sketches that lampoon the pretensions of scientific and literary circles. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aEngland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/912