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Sketches by Boz

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University Society, 1908 - 486 pages

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User Review  - Mike Jensen - Goodreads

Though superior to Thackeray's dreary books of sketches, I found the first dozen of these only intermittently interesting and even fewer fun to read. Perhaps the genre is simply not to my taste. I bailed before finishing this book. Read full review

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Contents

CONTENTS OUR PARISH CHAPTER PA01 I The Beadle The Parish Engine The Schoolmaster
1
The Curate The Old Lady The HalfPay Captain
6
The Pour Sisters
12
The Election for Beadle
17
The Brokers Man I u
24
The Ladies Societies 88
33
Our NextDoor Neighbour i 88
38
The StreetsMorning
46
Criminal Courts
185
A Visit to Newgate
189
CHAPTER PAGE I Thoughts about People
204
A Christmas Dinner
209
The New Year
214
Miss Evans and the Eagle
219
The Hospital Patient
228
The Misplaced Attachment of Mr John Dounce
232

The StreetsNight
51
Shops and their Tenants
56
ScotlandYard
61
Seven Dials
65
HackneyCoach Stands
76
Doctors Commons
81
London Recreations
86
The River
91
Greenwich Fair i
104
Private Theatres 112
112
VauxhaU Gardens by Day
119
Early Coaches
124
Omnibuses
129
The Last CabDriver and the First Omnibus Cad 133
133
A Parliamentary Sketch
143
Public Dinners
154
The First of May
160
Brokers and MarineStore Shops
168
GinShops
172
The Pawnbrokers Shop
177
The Mistaken Milljner A Tale of Ambition
238
The Dancing Academy
244
ShabbyGenteel People
250
XLMaking a Night of it
254
The PrisonersVan
259
The BoardingHouse Chapter the First
263
Chapter the Second
279
Mr Minns and his Cousin
300
Sentiment
311
The Tuggses at Ramsgate
322
Horatio Sparkins J
342
The Black Veil
358
The Steam Excursion 869
369
The Great Winglehury Duel 891
409
A Passage in the Life of Mr Watkina Tottler Chapter the First
419
Chapter the Second
432
The Bloomsbury Christening
455
The Drunkards Death
472
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TitleSketches by Boz
Booklovers edition of the works of Charles Dickens
Works, Charles Dickens
AuthorCharles Dickens
PublisherUniversity Society, 1908
Original fromHarvard University
Digitized13 Mar 2006
Length486 pages
  
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