Sketches by Boz Volume 1

Charles Dickens started his literary career as a journalist reporting for `The Morning Chronicle,¿ a profession which encouraged his observing eye. This collection of essays and short stories was first published in that journal and anticipates, and frequently demonstrates, the genius that was to come. The Sketches `Illustrative of Everyday Life and Everyday People¿ are a valuable documentary account of existence in the great metropolis during the early part of the nineteenth century and exh...