Oliver Twist: Or, the Parish Boy's Progress (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141192496 ISBN 13: 9780141192499

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2009

Synopsis

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

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Review:

"The power of [Dickens] is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive, and must follow him whithersoever he leads."
--William Makepeace Thackeray

Book Description:

With an exclusive introduction by Peter Ackroyd, these out of print editions are brought back to life with a fresh and timeless new look.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141192496
• ISBN 13: 9780141192499
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608