Sketches by Boz Paperback - 1996
by Charles Dickens; Dennis Walder (Editor); Introduction by Dennis Walder
Summary
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.
From the rear cover
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, lawcourts, prisons, along the Thames and on the omnibus, missing nothing, recording and transforming urban and suburban life into new terrain for literature. 'The first sprightly runnings of his genius are undoubtedly here, ' wrote Dickens's friend and biographer John Forster. 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.
Details
- Title Sketches by Boz
- Author Charles Dickens; Dennis Walder (Editor); Introduction by Dennis Walder
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 688
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, London
- Date 1996-05-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780140433456 / 0140433457
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 7.88 x 5.08 x 1.74 in (20.02 x 12.90 x 4.42 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1350
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects London (England) - Social life and customs -, London (England) - Social life and customs -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96164047
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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"The first sprightly runnings of his genius are undoubtedly here," wrote Dickens’s friend and biographer John Forster.
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