Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is a riveting depiction of London's dark criminal underbelly, published by Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne. The story of Oliver Twist, who was orphaned and surrounded by evil and adversity from the moment he was born, shocked readers when it was first published. After fleeing the workhouse and the pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver is drawn into a den of thieves populated by vivid and memorable characters such as the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all under the watchful eye of cunning master-thief Fagin. Dickens created an entirely new type of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery, by combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel, and popular melodrama.
The Penguin Classics edition of Oliver Twist available on Amazon 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, and it includes an introduction by Philip Horne, a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang, a chronology of Dickens' life, a map of contemporary London, and all of George Cruikshank's original illustrations.
Author: Charles Dickens
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