Charles Dickens

Sketches by Boz (MP3-Download)

Ungekürzte Lesung. 1135 Min.
Sprecher: Turner, Miles; Gordon, Parker

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Produktbeschreibung

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 manifoldmedia.net/donate

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manifold Media LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 0782376064519
• Artikelnr.: 75623185

Autorenporträt

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years.