Oliver Twist
Publisher: Lancer Books
Published: 1972-09
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 670
Copyright date: 1968
Description: The Boy Who Asked for More...

A starved and beaten poorhouse waif, cruelly apprenticed to an undertaker—and then a run- away, kidnapped by London cut-throats and thieves! This is Oliver Twist, boy hero of Charles Dickens' ever-popular and perhaps most mov- ing novel.

Dickens wrote OLIVER TWIST while still in his twenties. Though he was to retain a lifelong con- cern for the English poor, in no later novel did he more vividly portray their sufferings—nor pro- duce characters so brutalized by the horrors of his times. Here you will meet the sinister master thief Fagin; the wicked Bill Sikes and the pa- thetic, doomed Nancy; the impudent pickpocket 'The Artful Dodger', as well as others, equally vicious, who try to convert Oliver to a life of squalor. But here, too, you will meet kindness in Oliver's few benefactors, who help him finally to find his true and noble heritage.

OLIVER TWIST was first published serially in 1837-1839. Despite the grimness of its theme, Dickens' suspenseful plot and splendid charac- -—— terizations make it a delight to read. Several films and a recent successful musical play based on it attest to its continuing appeal.
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