This gripping take on Charles Dickens' classic remains faithful to the spirit of the novel while delivering a modern thrilling tragic & occasionally comic edge ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics ' Oliver Twist has asked for more!' Fleeing the workhouse Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger & caught up with a group of pickpockets in London As he tries to free himself from their clutches he becomes immersed in the seedy underbelly of the Capital amongst criminals prostitutes & the homeless Dickens scathing attack on the cruelness of Victorian Society features some of his most memorable & enduring characters including innocent Oliver himself the Artful Dodger Fagin Bill Sikes & Nancy ...

Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist is a gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne The story of Oliver Twist
- orphaned & set upon by evil & adversity from his first breath
- shocked readers when it was published After running away from the workhouse & pompous beadle Mr Bumble Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid & memorable characters
- the Artful Dodger vicious burglar Bill Sikes his dog Bull's Eye & prostitute Nancy all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin Combining elements of Gothic Romance the Newgate Novel & popular melodrama Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction scathing in its indictment of a cruel society & pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat & mystery This Penguin Classics edition of Oliver Twist is the first critical edition to faithfully reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it from its serialisation in Bentley's Miscellany &

Includes:: an introduction by Philip Horne a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang a chronology of Dickens's life a map of contemporary London & all of George Cruikshank's original illustrations Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012 His most famous books including Oliver Twist Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield & The Pickwick Papers have been adapted for stage & screen & read by millions If you enjoyed Oliver Twist you may like Nicholas Nickleby & Little Dorrit also available in Penguin Classics' His novels will endure as long as the language itself' Peter Ackroyd' He is our greatest novelist
- every reread reveals more riches' Melvyn Bragg' When Dickens has once described something you see it for the rest of your life' George Orwell





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Charles Dickens' classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London Here he meets the Artful Dodger who leads him to Fagin & his gang of pickpockets When a thieving mission goes wrong Oliver narrowly avoids prison & finds himself in the care of kind Mr Brownlow But Fagin & the brutal Bill Sikes go in search of the young orphan determined to drag him back With an inspirational & light-hearted introduction by Garth Nix ...

This is a retelling of the classic Charles Dickens' story for children growing in their reading confidence & ability It is part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts from Roehampton University The audio CD

Includes:: a dramatic listen-along recording with music & sound effects followed by a read-along version with prompts for page turns

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Please sir I want some more' Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on Fleeing from poverty & hardship he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go however hard he tries to escape In Oliver Twist Dickens graphically conjures up the capital's underworld full of prostitutes thieves & lost & homeless children & gives a voice to the disadvantaged & abused Also in the Vintage Classics Dickens Series A Christmas Carol A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield Great Expectations Hard Times ...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design The story of the orphan Oliver who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves shocked readers when it was first published Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid & memorable characters
- the arch-villain Fagin the artful Dodger the menacing Bill Sikes & the prostitute Nancy Combining elements of Gothic Romance the Newgate Novel & popular melodrama Dickens created an entirely newkind of fiction scathing in its indictment of a cruel society & pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat & mystery
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Introduction & 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 & strengthened The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes
- grinding poverty desperation fear temptation & 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 & '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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The classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London Here he meets the Artful Dodger who leads him to Fagin & his gang of pickpockets When a thieving mission goes wrong Oliver narrowly avoids prison & finds himself in the care of kind Mr Brownlow But Fagin & the brutal Bill Sikes go in search of the young orphan determined to drag him back With an inspirational & light-hearted introduction by popular children's fantasy writer Garth Nix ...

In the dark dangerous streets of Victorian London Oliver enters the world of people so poor & desperate that they will take any risk & know no mercy Relentlessly pursued by the menacing criminal world who should Oliver trust? Are his true friends strong enough to resist the determined plotting of desperate villains? In this gripping tale of kidnapping shooting & murder Charles Dickens shows the threats to a vulnerable boy's existence & asks the eternal question which is more powerful good or evil? ...