Sketches By Boz (THe Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty Volumes, Volume 4)
by DICKENS, CHARLES
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- Hardcover
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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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- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027632
- Title
- Sketches By Boz (THe Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty Volumes, Volume 4)
- Author
- DICKENS, CHARLES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- P. F. Collier and Son
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"
- Weight
- 0.06 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE CLASSICS VICTORIAN LONDON, ENGLAND
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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