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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist (Penguin Popular Classics) - 9780140620467 - KCW0006434
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Oliver Twist (Penguin Popular Classics)

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Description for Oliver Twist (Penguin Popular Classics) Paperback. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light scoring on FFEP. Light foxing, remains very good
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' 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, in "Oliver Twist" Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140620467
SKU
KCW0006434
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born at Portsmouth on 7 February 1812. He received little formal education, but taught himself shorthand and became a reporter of parliamentary debates for the Morning Chronicle. He began to publish sketches in various periodicals, which were subsequently republished as Sketches by Boz. The Pickwick Papers were published in 1836-7 and after a slow start became a ... Read more

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