Sketches by Boz - Author Charles Dickens

In later life and at the height of his fame, Dickens was very apologetic about his first published work - sketches by Boz - perhaps too much so.

Although they contain may examples of his inexperience, the pieces alread possessed the tell-tale Dickens tale for humour, biting satire and such vivid descriptions of people and places as to conjure them up, almost solidly before the reader.....