EBOOK Sketches of Young Gentlemen and Young Couples:with Sketches of Young Ladies by Edward Caswall

Following the phenomenal popularity of Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers,        Dickens produced two short volumes of Sketches of Young Gentlemen and Young Couples,        in response to the appearance of Sketches of Young Ladies by 'Quiz'. Each volume        purports to dissect the characteristics of familiar types such as 'The Bashful Young        Gentleman', 'The Literary Young Lady', and 'The Couple who Coddle themselves'.          Whimsical, satirical, wittyand exuberant, the sketches ridicule the behaviour of        their subjects with perfect comic effect, rendering Mr Whiffler, Mrs Chopper and        their companions instantly recognizable. They offer intriguing glimpses of courtship        rituals and relations between the sexes at the outset of the Victorian era, and        fascinating evidence of a writer learning hiscraft and refining his style.This        edition includes the original illustrations by Phiz, and an introduction that        examines the appeal of the sketch, a literary genre in which Dickens excelled        throughout his career.