Sketches by Boz
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0192545183
- ISBN 13
- 9780192545183
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Synopsis
Sketches by Boz collected a rich and strange mixture of reportage, observation, fancy and fiction centred on the metropolis. It was Dickens's first book, published when he was twenty-four, and in it we find him walking the London streets, in theatres, pawnshops, law-courts, prisons, along the Thames, and on the omnibus, missing nothing, recording and transforming urban and suburban life into new terrain for literature. Sketches is a remarkable achievement, and looks towards Dickens's giant novels in its profusion of characters, its glimpses of surreal modernity and its limitless fund of pathos and comic invention.
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- Bujoldfan (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 120115039780192545183gr
- Title
- Sketches by Boz
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0192545183
- ISBN 13
- 9780192545183
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, England
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Story Collection
- Bookseller catalogs
- literature;
- Size
- 8vo
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