Oliver Twist Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307947181 ISBN-13: 9780307947185 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2012376451 |
Lexile Measure: 530 |
Series: Vintage Classics |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.95 lbs) 432 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This darkest and most colorfully grotesque of Charles Dickens's novels swirls around one of his most beloved and unsullied heroes, the orphan Oliver Twist. One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Dickens's great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation--through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikes--of the vast nineteenth-century London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickens to task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believable way, but readers over the last century and a half have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver one of its author's most loved works. |