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Sketches by Boz
Sketches by Boz
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"Sketches by Boz" is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens (under the pseudonym Boz) in 1836. 
The collection heralded an exciting new voice in English literature and it is Dickens first published book.

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. 

"Sketches by Boz" 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.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherE-BOOKARAMA
Release dateSep 30, 2023
ISBN9788835328735
Sketches by Boz
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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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