Oliver Twist
$16.18
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2005
Summary
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London’s seedy backstreet slums, Oliver Twist is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves’ den, where some of Dickens’s most depraved villains preside—the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the “ghostly gallows.” Yet at the heart of thi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553211023 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0553211021 |
| Author: | Charles Dickens |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2005 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 106mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Bantam 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 From the Trade Paperback edition.
“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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