Oliver Twist
By: edited by Peter Fairclough, with an introduction by Angus Wilson and George Cruikshank's original illustrations.
Contributors: Fairclough, Peter, ed.
Series: Penguin English library, EL 17
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 490
Copyright date: 1966
Subjects: Orphans -- Fiction.; Criminals -- Fiction.; Kidnapping victims -- Fiction.; London (England) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Oliver Twist, Dickens's second novel, has recognizable antecedents in the Gothic Romance and the Newgate Novel and in popular melodran)a. But out of these elements the 25-year-old writer created an entirely new kind of novel, scathing in its exposure of contemporary cruelties, always exciting, and clothed in an unforgettable atmosphere of mystery and pervasive evil. Its major characters— Fagin, Bill Sykes, the Artful Dodger — have become creatures of myth, and its great scenes have lost none of their power to terrify and move.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [30]