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Oliver Twist / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations from drawings by George Cruikshank.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Signet classic | Penguin classics | Modern Library classics | Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 110.Publication details: New York : Dodd, Mead, c1941.Description: 1 v. (various pagings) : illISBN:
  • 9781848373181 (2009 Arcturus trade pbk.)
  • 9780199536269 (2008 Oxford University Press trade pbk.)
  • 9780307290977 (2006 Premier Classics trade pbk.)
  • 9780375757846 (2001Modern Library trade pbk.)
  • 1851520066 (1985 Chancellor/Oxford world's classics ed.)
  • 9780679417248 (1992 Everyman's Library hc.)
  • 158279037X (1999 Signature Classics/Trident Press)
  • 0141439742 (2003 Penguin Classics trade pbk.)
  • 0486424537 (Dover Thrift Editions)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocent's unwilling, but inevitable, recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew features some of Dicken's most memorable characters, including the vicious Billy Sikes, gentle Nancy, and the juvenile pickpocket known as the Artful Dodger." -- Youth Services Team, HPL.Summary: Set in 1830s London, England. Oliver is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in particular by Bumble, a parish council official. The story follows Oliver as he escapes the workhouse and runs away to London. Here he receives an education in villainy from the criminal gang of Fagin that includes the brutal thief Bill Sikes, the famous 'Artful Dodger' and Nancy, Bill's whore. Oliver is rescued by the intervention of a benefactor - Mr Brownlow - but the mysterious Monks gets the gang to kidnap the boy again. Nancy intervenes but is murdered viciously by Sikes after she has showed some redeeming qualities and has discovered Monk's sinister intention. The story closes happily and with justice for Bumble and the cruel Monks who has hidden the truth of Oliver's parentage out of malice.
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First published in Great Britain, 1838.

2009 Arcturus edition has an introduction by Brian Busby.

1941 Dodd Mead edition has an introduction by May Lamberton Becker.

1988 Signet Classic edition contains an afterword by Edward Le Comte.

1998 TOR edition includes notes on the life of Charles Dickens, foreward and afterword by Nancy Springer.

2001Modern Library trade paperback edition has an introduction by Philip Pullman and original illustrations by George Cruikshank.

2003 Penguin Classics trade paperback edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Philip Horne.

2008 Oxford University Press trade paperback edition is edited by Kathleen Tillotson with an introduction and notes by Stephen Gill.

"Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocent's unwilling, but inevitable, recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew features some of Dicken's most memorable characters, including the vicious Billy Sikes, gentle Nancy, and the juvenile pickpocket known as the Artful Dodger." -- Youth Services Team, HPL.

Set in 1830s London, England. Oliver is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in particular by Bumble, a parish council official. The story follows Oliver as he escapes the workhouse and runs away to London. Here he receives an education in villainy from the criminal gang of Fagin that includes the brutal thief Bill Sikes, the famous 'Artful Dodger' and Nancy, Bill's whore. Oliver is rescued by the intervention of a benefactor - Mr Brownlow - but the mysterious Monks gets the gang to kidnap the boy again. Nancy intervenes but is murdered viciously by Sikes after she has showed some redeeming qualities and has discovered Monk's sinister intention. The story closes happily and with justice for Bumble and the cruel Monks who has hidden the truth of Oliver's parentage out of malice.

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