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Sketches by Boz

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Penguin Books Limited, 1995 - Fiction - 635 pages
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, prisons, omnibuses and the river Thames - in honest and visionary descriptions of everyday life and people. Through pen portraits that often anticipate characters from his great novels, we see the condemned man in his prison cell, garrulous matrons, vulgar young clerks and Scrooge-like bachelors, while Dickens's powers for social critique are never far from the surface, in unflinching depictions of the vast metropolis's forgotten citizens, from child workers to prostitutes. A startling mixture of humour and pathos, these Sketches reveal London as wonderful terrain for an extraordinary young writer. Sketches 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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User Review  - Marcia Lonteen-Martin - Goodreads

This is another great adventure in my year of Dickens. In this collection appear sketches and stories from various publications during 1836-1839. He begins by introducing the reader to people and ... Read full review

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User Review  - Christopher - Goodreads

read this in honor of Dicken's 200 year anniversary. of course not like his novels, but still full of his wit, characterization of common events and people to make them uncommonly interesting and funny (or sad) Read full review

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About the author (1995)

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until hisSketches by Boz(1836) andThe Pickwick Papers(1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

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TitleSketches by Boz
Classics Series
Oxford illustrated Dickens
Penguin classics
AuthorCharles Dickens
EditorDennis Walder
Illustrated byGeorge Cruikshank
ContributorDennis Walder
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherPenguin Books Limited, 1995
ISBN0140433457, 9780140433456
Length635 pages
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Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
  
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