Sketches by Boz

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Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836. Dickens' career as a writer of fiction truly began with this collection in 1833, when he started writing humorous sketches for the Monthly Chronicle, using the pen-name "Boz".

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The contents of Sketches by Boz are:

Our parish
- The beadle. The parish engine. The schoolmaster.
- The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain
- The four sisters
- The election for beadle
- The broker's man
- The ladies' societies
- Our next-door neighbour
Scenes
- The streets - morning
- The streets - night
- Shops and their tenants
- Scotland Yard
- Seven Dials
- Meditations in Monmouth-Street
- Hackney-coach stands
- Doctors' commons
- London recreations
- The river
- Astley's
- Greenwich fair
- Private theatres
- Vauxhall gardens by day
- Early coaches
- Omnibuses
- The last cab-driver, and the first omnibus cad
- A parliamentary sketch
- Public dinners
- The first of may
- Brokers' and marine-store shops
- Gin-shops
- The pawnbroker's shop
- Criminal courts
- A visit to Newgate
- Thoughts about people
- A Christmas dinner
- The New Year
- Miss Evans and the eagle
- The parlour orator
- The hospital patient
- The misplaced attachment of Mr. John Dounce
- The mistaken milliner. A tale of ambition
- The dancing academy
- Shabby-genteel people
- Making a night of it
- The prisoners' van
- The boarding-house.
  - Chapter the second.
- Mr. Minns and his cousin
- Sentiment
- The Tuggses at Ramsgate
- Horatio Tparkins
- The black veil
- The steam excursion
- The great Winglebury duel
- Mrs. Joseph Porter
- A passage in the life of Mr. Watkins Tottle
  - Chapter the first
  - Chapter the second
- The Bloomsbury christening
- The drunkard's death