Sketches By Boz Volume 1: Our Parish - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1539071626 ISBN 13: 9781539071624

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Volume I of Sketches by Boz collects the Our Parish series of sketches, which includes: The Beadle. The Parish Engine. The Schoolmaster. The Curate. The Old Lady. The Half-pay Captain The Four Sisters The Election for Beadle The Broker's Man The Ladies' Societies Our Next-door Neighbour

About this title

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.

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From the Back Cover:

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, lawcourts, prisons, along the Thames and on the omnibus, missing nothing, recording and transforming urban and suburban life into new terrain for literature. 'The first sprightly runnings of his genius are undoubtedly here, ' wrote Dickens's friend and biographer John Forster. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1539071626
• ISBN 13: 9781539071624
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118
• Editor: Books DaJa Vu