Oliver Twist (Oxford World's Classics)

by Charles Dickens (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), Stephen Gill (Contributor), Charles Dickens (Author), Charles Dickens (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $5.57

  This edition of Oliver Twist is based on the Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens's revised text of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in which he defended himself against hostile criticism, and includes all 24 original illustrations by George Cruikshank. Stephen Gill's Introduction gives an account of the novel, and he also provides appendices on Dickens and Cruikshank, on Dickens's preface, the Newgate novel controversy, on Oliver Twist , the New Poor Law and on thieves' slang.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.40

  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.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $4.61

  Oliver Twist is one of Dickens's most popular novels, with many famous film, television and musical adaptations. It is a classic story of good against evil, packed with humour and pathos, drama and suspense, in which the orphaned Oliver is brought up in a harsh workhouse, and then taken in and exploited by the criminal Fagin, before being eventually rescued and taken in by a loving family. Illustrated by Gerge Cruikshank, with an Afterword by Sam Gilpin.

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $10.80

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $16.44

  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.