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Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens |
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Sketches by Boz collected a rich strange mixture of reprtage, observation, fancy and fiction centred on the metropolis. It was Dicken's first boook, published when he was twenty four, and in it we find him walking the London streets, in theatres, pawnshops, lawcourts, prisons, along the Thames and on the omnibus, missing nothing, recording and transforming urban and suburban life into new terrain for literature.
"The first sprightly runnings of his genius are undoubtedly here,' wrote Dicken's friend and biographer John Forster. Sketches is a remarkable achievement, and looks towards Dicken's giant novels in its profusion of characters, its glimpses of surreal modernity and its limitless fund of pathos and comic invention. |
| As Walter Bagehot once remarked, Dickens wrote about London 'like a special correspondent for posterity. |
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Title: Sketches by Boz
ISBN/ Catalogue No: 0140433457
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: none |
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