Description
| Product ID: | 9781509854288 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Title: | Scenes of London Life |
| Subtitle: | From 'Sketches by Boz' |
| Authors: | Author: Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank |
| Page Count: | 152 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short stories, Short stories, London, Greater London, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Thirteen stories from Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz, selected and introduced by the inimitable J. B. Priestley <p>Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Chosen and introduced by the playwright J. B. Priestley, these twelve marvellous sketches are accompanied by George Cruikshank’s evocative illustrations.<br><br>Charles Dickens was one of the great chroniclers of London life. From the colourful chaos of dances and gin-shops to the sparse destitution of the pawnshop and the penitentiary, he captured the grime and the glory of the English capital with singular brilliance.<br><br>Orphans and beggars, lord mayors and murderers, actors, criminals, cab drivers and prostitutes; all rub shoulders in this wonderful selection from <i>Sketches by Boz.</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-02-08 |
