Oliver Twist

✍ Scribed by Charles Dickens

• Book ID: 111673737
• Publisher: Penguin Books; Penguin Group
• Year: 1838
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Edition: Penguin Classics (2007)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780141439747
• ASIN: B002RI9CRA

✦ Synopsis

Genre: Fiction, Literature

ebook, 654 pages

Paperback, 608 pages

Published: 1838

Edition: Penguin Classics (2007)

Goodreads Best Books of the 19th Century

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The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by: Philip Horne (2002)

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely newkind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

Penguin Classics e-books give you the best possible editions of Charles Dickens's novels, including all the original illustrations, useful and informative introductions, the definitive, accurate text as it was meant to be published, a chronology of Dickens's life and notes that fill in the background to the book. This Penguin Classics edition of Oliver Twist also includes a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang and a map of contemporary London.

Jun 2023 - epub format revised and verified by zardox (no changes to book content).