&quot;Sketches by Boz&quot; is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens (under the pseudonym Boz) in 1836.&nbsp;<br />The collection heralded an exciting new voice in English literature and it is Dickens first published book.<br /><br />This richly varied collection of observation, fancy and fiction shows the London he knew so intimately at its best and worst - its streets, theatres, inns, pawnshops, law courts, prisons, omnibuses and the river Thames - in honest and visionary descriptions of everyday life and people.&nbsp;<br /><br />&quot;Sketches by Boz&quot; is a remarkable achievement, and looks towards Dickens&#39;s giant novels in its profusion of characters, its glimpses of surreal modernity and its limitless fund of pathos and comic invention.