This view of London is portrayed in all of Dickens' work, and his description and his attention to detail is a major characteristic of his work from the grubbiness and cruelty in Oliver Twist to finding the plain beauty of hanging clothes in Meditations in Monmouth-Street in Sketches by Boz 'I have purposely dwelt upon the romantic side of familiar things' Dickens confirms in the preface of the novel. ...

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