Sketches by Boz / Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Dennis Walder and original illustrations by George Cruikshank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boz, 1812-1870.

Contributor:

Walder, Dennis.

Dr. Daniel and Eleanor Albert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.

London (England).

Manners and customs.

England--London.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Albert, Daniel M. (donor) (Albert Collection copy)

Albert, Eleanor (donor) (Albert Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xliv, 635 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1995.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Albert Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Dr. Daniel and Eleanor Albert.

ISBN:

0140433457

9780140433456

OCLC:

35319342

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