Sketches By Boz: Illustrative of Every-life and Every-day People. Being Acontinuation of "Watkins Tottle, and Other Sketches."
by Dickens, Charles
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009511
- Title
- Sketches By Boz: Illustrative of Every-life and Every-day People. Being Acontinuation of "Watkins Tottle, and Other Sketches."
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Carey, Lea & Blanchard
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1837
- Size
- Small 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Nineteenth Century;
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