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Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens |
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| Sketches by Boz collected a rich strange mixture of reportage, observation, fancy and fiction centered on the metropolis. It was Dickens 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. "The first sprightly runnings of his genius are undoubtedly here,' wrote Dickens friend and biographer John Forster. Sketches is a remarkable achievement, and looks towards Dickens 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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