Oliver Twist
By: Charles Dickens.
Edition: First Pocket Books Printing (5)
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 1975-04
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9780671442422
Copyright date: 1975
Description: Glancing back at the nightmare of poverty and neglect, almshouses and debtors' prisons that marked his own childhood, Charles Dickens could write with firsthand awareness of what might happen to a boy born in the workhouse and left to the mercies of public support. The story of how Oliver survives in a world of deceit and corruption—peopled with the likes of Bumble, Fagin, Sikes, and Monks—is an exciting tale of dark adventures in obscure slum alleys and rank dungeons. It is also, in the words of the eminent critic, Edgar Johnson, "a powerful work of art and a warning. It assaults our hearts like the clamor of a dreadful bell."