Sketches by Boz (Penguin Classics)
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140433456 (0140433457)
ASIN: 0140433457
Publish date: 1996-05-01
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 688
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Classic Literature,
19th Century,
Short Stories,
Fiction
Starring Nicholas Farrell, Christopher Hancock and Frances Jeater. Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 5:00am Sunday 7th March 2010Drama, Classic & Period
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