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Oliver Twist
by DICKENS, CHARLES
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New/As New
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About This Item
New York, New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1997. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Book-of-the-Month Club Edition, 1997, as New. This edition is printed from the classic Gadshill Edition of the works of Charles Dickens, incorporating a text corrected by the author in 1878-68. Introduction by Charles Lang with the original illustrations by George Cruikshank--16 black-and-white. In fine red cloth with sharp and bright gilt titles to spine, gilt decorative initials on front. Pristine. The tale of an orphan who is reared in a workhouse, runs away to London where he is captured by thieves and finally escapes--you will meet Fagin, the master thief; the Artful Dodger, the murderer Bill Sikes, along with other Dicken's sentimental and comical characters. 509 pages. 8vo - over 7
Synopsis
Oliver Twist , published in 1838, became one of English writer Charles Dickens's better-known stories and was the first Victorian novel with a child protagonist. Oliver Twist ( Parish Boy's Progress ) focuses on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the "Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by an elderly criminal Fagin . The book shows an unromantic portrayal of criminals and the treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028539
- Title
- Oliver Twist
- Author
- DICKENS, CHARLES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Book-of-the-Month Club
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE CLASSICS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Classics;
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