Oliver Twist
Subtitle: or, the Parish boy's progress
Edition: First Signet Classics Printing (Busch Introduction) (1)
Publisher: Signet Classics
Published: 2005-04
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780451529718
Copyright date: 2005
Description: One of the great novelist's most popular works, Oliver 'Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickensk genius. This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a noyel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story, Oliver "lil'ist presents some of the most sinister characters in Dickens—th nnster thief Fagin; the leering Artful Dodger; the murderer Sikes—along with some of his most sentimental and comiCal characters. Only Dickens can give us nightmare and da 'dream together. According to George Orv :il, "in Oliver Tivist... ickens attacked English institutions cith a ferocity that has never since been approached. Yet he managed to do it without making hilnself hated, and, more than this, the very people he attacked have welcolned hilli so conlpletely that he has become a national institution himself."