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Oliver Twist Hardcover - 1987

by Charles Dickens; Introduction by Humphrey House


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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.

Summary

Thanks to its colorful cast of characters and gritty portrayal of street life in Victorian London, Dickens’ Oliver Twist has captured readers’ hearts for more than 150 years. Today’s children will love it too. Oliver, a poor orphan, escapes the miserable workhouse where he was born only to fall into the clutches of a band of pickpockets led by the odious Fagin. Yet no amount of cruelty can destroy his purity…and through his goodness, he finds salvation.

From the publisher

The story of a boy who runs away from an orphanage in England and becomes involved with a gang of thieves.

First Edition Identification

Oliver Twist was first published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838 before the serialization ended.

The first edition was published by Richard Bentley in London, 1838. Octavo, three volumes, original reddish-brown cloth, gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panels marked with a stamp. Features 24 illustrated plates by George Cruikshank. 

The first issue has the "Fireside" plate in volume 3 and "Boz" listed as the author on all title pages. It was issued on November 9, 1838. At Dicken's insistence, the Fireside plate was replaced with the "Church" plate, and Dickens's name replaced "Boz". The book was then reissued in three volumes 7 days after the first issue, on November 16.

The First US Edition of Oliver Twist was published in New York by Jemima M. Lewer in 1838, as two volumes, bound in modern brown quarter-leather bindings, with marbled paper boards.

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  • Title Oliver Twist
  • Author Charles Dickens; Introduction by Humphrey House
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 446
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, London
  • Date October 22, 1987
  • ISBN 9780192545053 / 0192545051
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 5 x 7.5 x 1.22 in (12.70 x 19.05 x 3.10 cm)
  • Reading level 990
  • Library of Congress subjects Orphans - England - London - Fiction, Criminals - England - London - Fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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