Oliver Twist (Wordsworth Classics)

by Charles Dickens (Author), George Cruickshank (Illustrator), Charles Dickens (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), Ella Westland (Introduction), Charles Dickens (Author), George Cruickshank (Illustrator)

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  Illustrated
  2000

  $4.48

  Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sikes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'. For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian literary colossus, Oliver Twist is, without doubt, an essential title.

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  Paperback
  1982

  $3.25

  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.

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  Paperback
  2001

  $10.33

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $17.64

  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.