Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Sketches by Boz, by Charles Dickens This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Sketches by Boz illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Author: Charles Dickens Release Date: December 6, 2009 [eBook #882] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SKETCHES BY BOZ*** Transcribed from the 1903 Chapman and Hall edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org SKETCHES BY BOZ Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People By CHARLES DICKENS With Illustrations by George Cruickshank and Phiz LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, ld. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1903 PREFACE The whole of these Sketches were written and published, one by one, when I was a very young man. They were collected and republished while I was still a very young man; and sent into the world with all their imperfections (a good many) on their heads. They comprise my first attempts at authorship—with the exception of certain tragedies achieved at the mature age of eight or ten, and represented with great applause to overflowing nurseries.