Oliver Twist

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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