Sketches By "Boz" : Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
by Charles Dickens
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good (BELOW AVERAGE)/No Jacket
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Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
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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's Inventory #
- 1001818
- Title
- Sketches By "Boz" : Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- Not Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (BELOW AVERAGE)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Undated Circa 1920's/30's
- Publisher
- T Nelson & Sons Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾"
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