Category: Sketches by Boz

  • New editions of interest

    Oxford University Press is releasing Dickens's works in a new scholarly edition. Sketches by Boz is…

  • New year, new reading (part 2)

    Rachel, a.k.a. Sydney Wren, at All the (Dickensian) Year Round is starting a Dickens Chronological Reading…

  • From the book pile: ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’

    Stephen Jarvis's Death and Mr. Pickwick is not quite like any other novel I've ever read. I'll explain…

  • Happy Easter!

    "We have grown older . . . and quiet, and steady: liking nothing better than to…

  • Little black book

    Penguin Classics is launching a new line of "Little Black Classics" to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary.…

  • Night walks with Dickens

    USA Today reviews the new short film The Houseless Shadow, based on Dickens's essay "Night Walks,"…

  • The operatic imagination

    Critic Michael Dirda has an excellent article in the Barnes and Noble Review celebrating Dickens's accomplishments…

  • Happy Dickens year!

    It's 2012, and the Dickens bicentennial is officially upon us! That means that the Dickens Bicentennial…

  • Tomalin’s top five

    Biographer Claire Tomalin names what she thinks are Dickens's five best books: Sketches by Boz, David…

  • Master of the Universe

    The Dickens Universe has been taking place all week at the University of California, Santa Cruz.…