Sketches by Boz
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- Paperback
688 pages
- Release Date
26 October 1995
Summary
In his introduction, Dennis Walder discusses Dickens’s social commentary and view of London, and places the Sketches in the tradition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reportage.
Charles Dickens’s first published book, Sketches by Boz (1836) heralded an exciting new voice in English literature. This richly varied collection of observation, fancy and fiction shows the London he knew so intimately at its best and worst – its streets, theatres, inns, pawnshops, law courts, p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140433456 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140433457 |
| Author: | Charles Dickens, Dennis Walder, George Cruikshank |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 26 October 1995 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Critics Review
Walter Bagehot once remarked, Dickens wrote about London “like a special correspondent for posterity”.
“The first sprightly runnings of his genius are undoubtedly here,” wrote Dickens’s friend and biographer John Forster.
About The Author
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years.
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