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Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress

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An edition of Oliver Twist

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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, in Oliver Twist Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

This is the first critical edition to use the serial text of 1837—9 presenting Oltver Twist as it appeared to its earliest readers. It includes Dickens's 1841 introduction and 1 850 preface, the original illustra- tions and a glossary of contemporary slang.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
554

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London, New York

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. xlv-xlix).

Series
Penguin classics
Genre
Fiction.
Other Titles
Oliver Twist, Parish boy's progress

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR4567.A2 H67 2003

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
liii, 553 p. :
Number of pages
554

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3702624M
Internet Archive
olivertwistorpar00dick_0
ISBN 10
0141439742
ISBN 13
9780141439747
LCCN
2003269464
OCLC/WorldCat
52335046
Library Thing
2215
Goodreads
18254

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