Oliver Twist
$27.96
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2012
Summary
This darkest and most colorfully grotesque of 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 to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307947185 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307947181 |
| Author: | Charles Dickens |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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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.” –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
About The Author
Charles Dickens
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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