Sketches by Boz - Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, 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
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014688
- Title
- Sketches by Boz - Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- George Cruikshank and Phiz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - Charles Dickens;
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