Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People (Classic Reprint)FB&C Limited, Jan 19, 2018 - 472 pages Excerpt from Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People In the beginning of 1836 Dickens collected the sketche'siin two volumes. They were published by a Mr. Macrone, who had also dealings of the usual hapless kind with the Ettrick Shepherd. Mr. Forster publishes some chatter of Mr. N. P. Willis about a visit which he and Macrone paid to Dickens in his rooms. The child of the untrammelled West was struck by Dickens's obsequiousness to the opulent patron and pub lisher, Macrone. The author was attired like Mr. Richard Swiveller (which proves that Willis was writing long after the event); his hair was cropped close (later he wore it of luxuriant length); he was shabby, collarless, and buttoned up. If all this had been true, how dignified is the attitude of Mr. Willis in publishing what Mr. Forster calls this kind of garbage! But hardly a word of it is true; for Mr. Willis was a poet as well as a man of exquisitely refined taste, and his fancy appears to have run away with him. Dickens had unwittingly undergone his first American inter viewer. Nature is very careful of the type. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
