Sketches by Boz
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Peebles, Scottish Borders, 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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Details
- Bookseller
- Thistle and Heather Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2406
- Title
- Sketches by Boz
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Walter Scott
- Date Published
- 1889
- Weight
- 1.16 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian & Collectable; Fiction Vintage; Literature;
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