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Sketches by Boz

By Charles Dickens
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Sketches by Boz is a vibrant collection of essays and vignettes vividly depicting everyday life in early 19th-century London. Through a series of compelling character sketches, Charles Dickens captures the city's bustling streets, colourful characters, and varied social dynamics, offering readers a rich, nuanced portrait of urban life during this era. Each sketch brings to life the quirks and foibles of his characters with Dickens' trademark humour and keen observation.
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This collection may appeal to you if you enjoy vivid descriptions of 19th-century London, with its bustling streets and diverse characters. Charles Dickens offers a lively tapestry of urban life through humorous and poignant sketches, capturing both the charm and challenges of city life. If you appreciate rich storytelling and social commentary, this book might be a delightful read.

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Sketches by Boz

deals with the London the author knew at its best and worst - its streets, theatres, inns, pawnshops, law courts, prisons, omnibuses and the river Thames - in honest and visionary descriptions of everyday life and people.

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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 by Boz 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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Sketches by Boz is praised for its vivid portrayal of London, capturing the city's essence with a journalistic flair reminiscent of a "special correspondent for posterity," according to Walter Bagehot. John Forster, a friend and biographer of Dickens, noted that these sketches display the early signs of Dickens's literary genius.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780140433456

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 October 1995

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by George Cruikshank
  • Edited by Dennis Walder
  • Introduction by Dennis Walder
  • Notes by Dennis Walder

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 463g

Pages: 688

Collections

Charles Dickens Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics

About the Author

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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