Oliver Twist
Subtitle: or, The parish boy's progress
By: Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Philip Horne.
Contributors: Horne, Philip.
Edition: printing (1)
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 553
ISBN-13: 9780140435221
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Boys -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Criminals -- Fiction; Kidnapping victims -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Oliver Twist; Parish boy's progress
Description: The story of orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse to be taken in by a den of thieves in London, has become a classic myth. Its vivid characters — arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger and Bill Sikes — are legendary, and its story of childhood innocence versus evil has lost none of its power to move or terrify.

In Oliver Twist, Dickens combined elements of the Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama to create an entirely new kind of novel, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable atmosphere of mystery and wickedness. This new edition is based on the Bentley's Miscellany text, giving us Oliver Twist as it appeared to its first readers — not as a polished novel for a family audience, but as the dramatically improvised work of a young man discovering his possibilities as a writer.

• With introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and glossary of contemporary slang, together with Dickens's 1841 introduction and 1850 preface. Contains all the original illustrations •
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xlv-xlix).