Sketches by Boz (Victorian, #135) (Classic Books, #52) (The Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens)

by Charles Dickens

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The young Dickens composed these sketches, his first attempts at authorship, poised between two worlds. Thea Holmes writes in her Introduction, 'On the one hand Dickens depicts in relentless detail the horrors of poverty, disease, and crime - legacy of eighteenth-century London; on the other the prosperous vulgarity of the rapidly rising middle class.' Among the many essays are 'Scotland Yard', 'Gin-Shops', 'Shabby-Genteel People', and 'The Steam Excursion'. 'It is for the glimpses they afford us of their author that these sketches have a special fascination: not only in foreshadowings of future greatness but in those touches which reveal the young Boz himself.'
  • ISBN10 1420940562
  • ISBN13 9781420940565
  • Publish Date 1 January 2011 (first published May 1968)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Imprint Digireads.com
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 404
  • Language English