Oliver Twist (World's Classics S.)

by Charles Dickens (Author), KathleenTillotson (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1982

  $3.38

  I have thrown my whole heart and soul into Oliver Twist , wrote young Charles Dickens in 1836. After the work was published, Oliver and Mr. Bumble soon became household words. In tracing the boy's story, Dickens made a scathing comment on the inhumanity of the newly enacted Poor Law and startled readers with his convincing picture of the criminal underworld. This edition includes eight plates from Cruikshank's original illustrations.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.24

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $10.27

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $15.49

  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.