Oliver Twist

Author:   Charles Dickens ,  Charles Dickens
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
ISBN:  

9780307947185


Pages:   432
Publication Date:   10 January 2012
Format:   Paperback
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One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Dickens's great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation--through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikes--of the vast nineteenth-century London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickens to task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believable way, but readers over the last century and a half have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver one of its author's most loved works. This darkest and most colorfully grotesque of Charles Dickens's novels swirls around one of his most beloved and unsullied heroes, the orphan Oliver Twist. One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Dickens's great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation-through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikes-of the vast nineteenth-century London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickens to task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believable way, but readers over the last century and a half have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver one of its author's most loved works.

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Author:   Charles Dickens ,  Charles Dickens
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Vintage Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.357kg
ISBN:  

9780307947185


ISBN 10:   0307947181
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   10 January 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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The power of [Dickens] is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive, and must follow him whithersoever he leads. <br>--William Makepeace Thackeray


The power of [Dickens] is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive, and must follow him whithersoever he leads. --William Makepeace Thackeray


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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, England, and spent most of his life in London. When he was twelve, his father was sent to debtor's prison and he was forced to work in a boot polish factory, an experience that marked him for life. He became a passionate advocate of social reform and the most popular writer of the Victorian era.

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