| Oliver Twist Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author), Busch, Frederick (Introduction by), Le Comte, Edward (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0451529715 ISBN-13: 9780451529718 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $5.36 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: One of the great writer's most popular works is not only the story of an orphaned boy, but a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story. This revised edition includes a new Introduction by Frederick Busch and an Afterword by Edward Le Comte. Reissue. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004026593 |
| Lexile Measure: 530 |
| Series: Signet Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 4.18" W x 6.76" (0.53 lbs) 512 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 7116 Reading Level: 11.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 33.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One of the great novelist's most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens's genius. This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story. Oliver Twist presents some of the most sinister characters in Dickens: the master thief, Fagin; the leering Artful Dodger; the murderer, Bill Sikes...along with some of his most sentimental and comical characters. Only Dickens can give us nightmare and daydream together. According to George Orwell, "in Oliver Twist...Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached. Yet he managed to do it without making himself hated, and, more than this, the very people he attacked have welcomed him so completely that he has become a national institution himself." With an Introduction by Frederick Busch and an Afterword by Edward Le Comte |