Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens - ISBN: 9780140433456
Paperback
Dickens’s London unveiled: laughter, tears, and social critique ignite the page.

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  • Paperback

    688 pages

  • Release Date

    26 October 1995

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Summary

In his introduction, Dennis Walder discusses Dickens’s social commentary and view of London, and places the Sketches in the tradition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reportage.

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, p…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140433456
ISBN-10:0140433457
Author:Charles Dickens, Dennis Walder, George Cruikshank
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:688
Edition:1st
Release Date:26 October 1995
Weight:460g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 32mm
Series:Penguin Classics
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Critics Review

Walter Bagehot once remarked, Dickens wrote about London “like a special correspondent for posterity”.

“The first sprightly runnings of his genius are undoubtedly here,” wrote Dickens’s friend and biographer John Forster.

About The Author

Charles Dickens

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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