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Sketches By Boz : Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People

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Sketches By Boz : Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People

by Charles Dickens

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London: Hazell , Watson & Viney Ltd Stained boards & spine........POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES! AND FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY)......Please e-mail for further details.. Not Inscribed. Undated Circa 1930's. Blue Cloth. Good (BELOW AVERAGE)/No Jacket. Illus. by George Cruikshank and phiz . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". HARDBACK.

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's Inventory #
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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 (BELOW AVERAGE)
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
Undated Circa 1930's
Publisher
Hazell , Watson & Viney Ltd
Place of Publication
London
Size
12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"

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