Sketches By Boz - Illustrative Of Every-Day Life And Of Every-Day People [with] Hard Times For These Times And No Thoroughfare
by Dickens, Charles
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Newbury, Berkshire, 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
- Eastleach Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59593
- Title
- Sketches By Boz - Illustrative Of Every-Day Life And Of Every-Day People [with] Hard Times For These Times And No Thoroughfare
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- reprint.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Odhams Press
- Date Published
- nd c 1930
- Keywords
- dickens, literature
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