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    Tales from Sketches by Boz
    Tales from Sketches by Boz
    Tales from Sketches by Boz
    Audiobook3 hours

    Tales from Sketches by Boz

    Written by Charles Dickens

    Narrated by Roy Macready

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    About this audiobook

    Charles Dickens saw his fictional work in print for the first time in 1833 when he was only twenty-one. It was a story called “Mr Minns and his Cousin” and was published in the Morning Chronicle. He wrote more tales and sketches for newspapers and magazines which were collected and published in book form in two series in 1836 as “Sketches by Boz”.

    Here are nine of them:

    • "Horatio Sparkins"
    • "Mr. Minns and his Cousin"
    • "The Great Winglebury Duel"
    • "Mrs. Joseph Porter"
    • "The Bloomsbury Christening"
    • "Miss Evans and the Eagle"
    • "Sentiment"
    • "Thoughts about People"
    • "Shabby-genteel People"

    Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBig Happy Family
    Release dateApr 18, 2016
    ISBN9781509461141
    Tales from Sketches by Boz
    Author

    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth, where his father worked as a clerk. Living in London in 1824, Dickens was sent by his family to work in a blacking-warehouse, and his father was arrested and imprisoned for debt. Fortunes improved and Dickens returned to school, eventually becoming a parliamentary reporter. His first piece of fiction was published by a magazine in December 1832, and by 1836 he had begun his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He focused his career on writing, completing fourteen highly successful novels, as well as penning journalism, shorter fiction and travel books. He died in 1870.

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