Refreshments for Travellers (Unabridged)

Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
REFRESHMENTS FOR TRAVELLERS: IN the late high winds I was blown to a great many places and indeed, wind or no wind, I generally have extensive transactions on hand in the article of Air but I have not been blown to any English place lately, and I very seldom have blown to any English place in my life, where I could get anything good to eat and drink in five minutes, or where, if I sought it, I was received with a welcome.