Sketches by Boz
About this book
How much is conveyed in those two short words - 'The Parish!' And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future.
Subjects
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- classic literature
- cooperative agriculture
- england, fiction
- english fiction
- english literature
- fiction
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, short stories (single author)
- great britain, social life and customs, fiction
- london (england), fiction
- manners and customs
- social life and customs