Review: Sketches by Boz
User Review - Marcia Lonteen-Martin - GoodreadsThis is another great adventure in my year of Dickens. In this collection appear sketches and stories from various publications during 1836-1839. He begins by introducing the reader to people and ... Read full review
Review: Sketches by Boz
User Review - Christopher - Goodreadsread this in honor of Dicken's 200 year anniversary. of course not like his novels, but still full of his wit, characterization of common events and people to make them uncommonly interesting and funny (or sad) Read full review
Review: Sketches by Boz
User Review - TE - GoodreadsRead bits and pieces of it. Jolly good. Wonderfully warm and delightfully ludicrous at points...not a fan of his 'sad, dying children' sketches, but the others are excellent. Such inane, mundane people. So much fun. Read full review
Review: Sketches by Boz
User Review - Maryam - GoodreadsEnjoyed the first 3 stories more than others in the end. Read full review
Review: Sketches by Boz
User Review - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsCharles 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 ... Read full review
Review: Sketches by Boz
User Review - Annie - GoodreadsOkay, technically, I didn't read all of this. But I read over half of it, so I'm going to count it. I had to read this for school. It's well written, but is guaranteed to put you to sleep every time. It's incredibly dull. Read full review
Review: Sketches by Boz
User Review - Emily - GoodreadsA fascinating, insightful, sarcastically amusing look at life. Read full review
Review: Sketches by Boz
User Review - Mike Jensen - GoodreadsThough superior to Thackeray's dreary books of sketches, I found the first dozen of these only intermittently interesting and even fewer fun to read. Perhaps the genre is simply not to my taste. I bailed before finishing this book. Read full review
Review: Sketches by Boz
User Review - Tony - GoodreadsSKETCHES BY BOZ. (1836). Charles Dickens. ***. This was the first collection of Dickens published in book form. The pieces in it had been serialized for a couple of years before finally being ... Read full review
