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Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens

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Sketches by Boz

Author
Charles Dickens
Narrator
Miles Turner, Parker Gordon
Publisher
Manifold Media LLC
Publish Date
20 October 2025
Run Time
18 hours 55 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Classic fiction: literary and general, Fiction: literary and general non-genre
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Charles Dickens's first published book, Sketches by Boz (1836) heralded an exciting new voice in English literature. 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. Through pen portraits that often anticipate characters from his great novels, we see the condemned man in his prison cell, garrulous matrons, vulgar young clerks and Scrooge-like bachelors, while Dickens's powers for social critique are never far from the surface, in unflinching depictions of the vast metropolis's forgotten citizens, from child workers to prostitutes. A startling mixture of humor and pathos, these Sketches reveal London as wonderful terrain for an extraordinary young writer. 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." Support Us and visit our site at https://manifoldmedia.net/donate

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Author
Charles Dickens
Narrator
Miles Turner, Parker Gordon
Duration
18 hours 55 minutes
Release Date
20 October 2025
ISBN
0782376064519
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Manifold Media LLC
Genre
Classic fiction: literary and general, Fiction: literary and general non-genre

Synopsis

Charles Dickens's first published book, Sketches by Boz (1836) heralded an exciting new voice in English literature. 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. Through pen portraits that often anticipate characters from his great novels, we see the condemned man in his prison cell, garrulous matrons, vulgar young clerks and Scrooge-like bachelors, while Dickens's powers for social critique are never far from the surface, in unflinching depictions of the vast metropolis's forgotten citizens, from child workers to prostitutes. A startling mixture of humor and pathos, these Sketches reveal London as wonderful terrain for an extraordinary young writer. 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." Support Us and visit our site at https://manifoldmedia.net/donate

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