Oliver Twist
“Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens is a classic work published by Penguin in 1966, featuring 489 pages in English. This edition, the 23rd printing, presents a fiercely comic tale that contrasts sharply with Dickens’s earlier work, “The Pickwick Papers.” Set in the grimy back streets of London, the story follows the life of a workhouse orphan who becomes entangled in a world of crime, encountering notorious characters such as the Artful Dodger, the violent Sikes, and the cunning Fagin.
Readers will find a narrative that explores themes of innocence and moral struggle amidst the harsh realities of life in the slums. The saga of Oliver, whose inherent goodness shines through adversity, unfolds against a backdrop of depravity and villainy. This edition invites readers to engage with Dickens’s vivid portrayal of society’s outcasts and the challenges they face, making it a significant contribution to the literary canon.
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This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, “The Pickwick Papers.” Set against London’s seedy back street slums, “Oliver Twist” is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves’ den, where some of Dickens’s most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the “ghostly gallows.” Yet at the heart of this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leads him at last to salvation. In 1838 the publication of “Oliver Twist” firmly established the literary eminence of young Dickens. It was, according to Edgar Johnson, “a clarion peal announcing to the world that in Charles Dickens the rejected and forgotten and misused of the world had a champion.”
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