Oliver Twist
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ware, Hertfordshire
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781853260124
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Literature: Classics; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Classics; Literature & Fiction
Description: Dickens had already changed achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity.

Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sykes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'.

For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian literary colossus, Oliver Twist is, without a doubt, an essential title.