Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people [Original Cloth]
by DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)
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- first
- Condition
- Fine
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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
- Fine Editions Ltd (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BB1787
- Title
- Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people [Original Cloth]
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall [from 1837]
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1863
- Bookseller catalogs
- XIX CENTURY;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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