Oliver Twist

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Key Features:	Release Date: September 01, 2002

This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against Londons 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." Minimize

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Authors	Arthur (AFT) Pober
Editors	Robert Garland
Narrator	Miriam Margolyes
Illustrator	Barry Ablett
Fiction Genre	Current Events • Juvenile Fiction
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Professional Reviews
Professional Reviews	Collins, Wilkie: "The character of Nancy is the finest thing he ever did. He never afterwards saw all sides of a woman's character--saw all around her."
Book Editions
Book Editions	Other - PACKAGEJune 01, 1994Ags Pub8"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.3 lbs.9781561036448
First Line
Publisher's Note	Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, it boasts of one which is common to most towns, great or small, to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born, on a day and date which I need not take upon myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events, the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.

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