Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens,
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
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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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Details
- Bookseller
- Lasting Words Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027311
- Title
- Oliver Twist
- Author
- Charles Dickens,
- Illustrator
- George Cruikshank
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1904
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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