'Sets out the London of the 1830s before you,streets,people,pleasures,low life,prisons'Claire TomalinCharles Dickens's first published book,Sketches by Boz is a funny and touching collection of observation,fancy and fiction showing the London he knew in all its complexity - its streets,theatres,inns,pawnshops,law courts,prisons and,of course,the river Thames. His descriptions of everyday life and people seem to anticipate characters from his great novels - garrulous matrons,vulgar young clerks,Scrooge-like bachelors - while his powers of social critique shine in his unflinching depictions of the city's forgotten citizens,from child workers to prostitutes. This edition includes the original illustrations by George Cruikshank.Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Dennis Walder
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780140433456Number of pages: 688Weight: 468 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 29 mm
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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.
Charles Dickens
A towering figure in the development of the novel,Charles Dickens was a British writer responsible for some of the best-loved works in the English language,including Oliver Twist,David Copperfield,A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations.
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