Sketches by Boz (Anniversary Collection of the Works of Charles Dickens, vol. III)
by Dickens, Charles
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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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
- Persephone's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 079812
- Title
- Sketches by Boz (Anniversary Collection of the Works of Charles Dickens, vol. III)
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- P. F. Collier & Son
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1911
- Pages
- 486
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Literature - English Classics
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