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Oliver Twist

Author: Charles Dickens; Kathleen Tillotson; Stephen Charles Gill
Publisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a romance, and a gripping  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Bildungsromans
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Oliver Twist.
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)741518006
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles Dickens; Kathleen Tillotson; Stephen Charles Gill
ISBN: 0192833391 9780192833396 0192834398 9780192834393
OCLC Number: 41311055
Description: lvii, 480, p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Series Title: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Responsibility: Charles Dickens ; edited by Kathleen Tillotson ; with an introduction and notes by Stephen Gill.
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Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a romance, and a gripping story in which he exploited suspense and violence more effectively than any of his contemporaries. The new Oxford World's Classics edition of Oliver Twist is based on the authoritative Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens's revised text of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in which he defended himself against hostile criticism, and includes all twenty-four original illustrations by George Cruikshank. Stephen Gill's groundbreaking introduction gives a fascinating new account of the novel. He also provides appendices on Dickens and Cruikshank, on Dickens's Preface and the Newgate Novel Controversy, on Oliver Twist and the New Poor Law and on thieves' slang.

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