Placeholder text

Go to cart

Oliver Twist

By Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

By Charles Dickens

0 - Default Title
Description
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."
Product details
Release Date:
1997-08-01
Publication Date:
1997-08-01
Publisher:
Blackstone Pub
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0786108614
Weight:
726 g
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out