SKETCHES BY BOZ - ILLUSTRATIVE OF EVERY-DAY LIFE AND EVERY-DAY PEOPLE - WITH 43 ILLUSTRATIONS
by Dickens, Charles
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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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- Gage Postal Books (GB)
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- Gen5492
- Title
- SKETCHES BY BOZ - ILLUSTRATIVE OF EVERY-DAY LIFE AND EVERY-DAY PEOPLE - WITH 43 ILLUSTRATIONS
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Pages
- 786
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