chymerra
Written on Jul 18, 2013
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."
- ISBN10 0198114540
- ISBN13 9780198114543
- Publish Date 13 October 1966 (first published 1 January 1838)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 530
- Language English
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Eve1972
Written on Feb 12, 2009