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Oliver Twist

Introduction by Michael Slater

By Charles Dickens
Illustrated by George Cruikshank
Introduction by Philip Pullman

By Charles Dickens
Illustrated by George Cruikshank
Introduction by Philip Pullman

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Michael Slater

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Michael Slater

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens
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By Charles Dickens
Read by John Lee

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Paperback $17.00

Oct 09, 2001 | ISBN 9780375757846

Mass Market Paperback $5.95

May 01, 1982 | ISBN 9780553211023

Hardcover $28.00

Nov 03, 1992 | ISBN 9780679417248

Ebook $6.99

Jan 17, 2012 | ISBN 9780307950567

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May 31, 2005 | ISBN 9780553901566

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    About Oliver Twist

    Dickens’s classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England’s Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger, to name a few Dickens’s second novel is a compelling social satire that has remained popular since it was first serialized in 1837-39.

    The text for this Modern Library Paperback Classic is taken from the 1846 New Edition, revised and corrected by the author. It includes new explanatory notes and an appendix, A Brief History of the English Poor Laws.

    About Oliver Twist

    This fiercely comic tale stands in marked  contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick  Papers. Set against London’s seedy back  street slums, Oliver Twist is  the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust  into a thieves’ den, where some of Dickens’s most  depraved villains preside: the incorrigible  Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the  terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose  grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the  "ghostly gallows." Yet at the heart of this  drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied  goodness leads him at last to salvation. In 1838 the  publication of Oliver Twist firmly established the  literary eminence of young Dickens. It was,  according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal  announcing to the world that in Charles Dickens the  rejected and forgotten and misused of the world had a  champion."

    About Oliver Twist

    Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape.

    One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation–through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikes–of the vast London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickens to task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believable way, but readers over the last 150 years have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver Twist one of its author’s most loved works.

    This edition reprints the original Everyman’s introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank.

    About Oliver Twist

    Dickens’s classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England’s Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger, to name a few Dickens’s second novel is a compelling social satire that has remained popular since it was first serialized in 1837-39.

    The text for this Modern Library Paperback Classic is taken from the 1846 New Edition, revised and corrected by the author. It includes new explanatory notes and an appendix, A Brief History of the English Poor Laws.

    About Oliver Twist

    Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape.

    One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation–through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikes–of the vast London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickens to task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believable way, but readers over the last 150 years have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver Twist one of its author’s most loved works.

    This edition reprints the original Everyman’s introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank.

    About Oliver Twist

    Dickens’s classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England’s Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger, to name a few Dickens’s second novel is a compelling social satire that has remained popular since it was first serialized in 1837-39.

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    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About George Cruikshank

    George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was an illustrator and satirist best known for his frequent collaboration with Charles Dickens.

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Oct 09, 2001 | 480 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375757846

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    May 01, 1982 | 480 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553211023

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $28.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Nov 03, 1992 | 528 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679417248

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 17, 2012 | 448 Pages | ISBN 9780307950567

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    May 31, 2005 | 480 Pages | ISBN 9780553901566

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $15.00
    Published by Listening Library
    Jan 11, 2011 | 966 Minutes | ISBN 9780307916051

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