Sketches by Boz; Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People with Forty Illustrations
by Dickens, Charles
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- fair
- Hardcover
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- Fair/No Jacket
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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
- Rattlesnake Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002131
- Title
- Sketches by Boz; Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People with Forty Illustrations
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- Cruikshank, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1839
- Pages
- 526
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dickens Cruikshank Classics
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