Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People [Two volume set; volumes XXVI and XXVII of the Gadshill Edition]
by Dickens, Charles; Edited by Andrew Lang; Illustrated by George Cruikshank
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
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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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- Common Crow Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B49054
- Title
- Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People [Two volume set; volumes XXVI and XXVII of the Gadshill Edition]
- Author
- Dickens, Charles; Edited by Andrew Lang; Illustrated by George Cruikshank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1880
- Keywords
- Literature
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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