Oliver Twist (Vintage Classics)

by Charles Dickens (Author), Charles Dickens (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2012

  $9.51

  A baby is born in the humble backstreets of a nameless town. His mother, who is not wearing a wedding ring, dies soon after the birth and her child is given into the care of the local orphanage. Hardly an unusual story, and yet young Oliver Twist is by no means an ordinary boy. He will escape the drudgery of the workhouse, travel to London and be initiated into to a gang of petty crooks. He will find himself at the centre of a criminal plot and an infamous murder, the object of hope, fear, despair and unexpected goodness. This is the story peopled by thieves and prostitutes, coloured by violence and neglect, and redeemed by the innocence of one boy searching for a home.

• Used

  Paperback
  1985

  $3.34

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.34

  Ladybird Classics give young readers an abridged version of some favourite stories. Born in the workhouse in Victorian England, the orphaned Oliver Twist has known nothing but hunger and misery. He runs away to London to start a better life, but instead falls in with the wicked Fagin and his gang of thieves including the wicked Bill Sikes. Just when everything seems hopeless, events take an unexpected turn.

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $15.98

  Dickens' celebrated novel of innocence betrayed and then triumphant. It recreates the London underworld populated by such characters as Fagin, Bill Sikes, Nancy and the Artful Dodger, who are contrasted with the friends and family of the orphaned Oliver.