Oliver Twist
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: E-book
ISBN-13: 9780553901566
Description: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles 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 London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickens to task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believable way, but readers over the last 150 years have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver Twist one of its author's most loved works.This edition reprints the original Everyman's introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank.From the Hardcover edition.