Oliver Twist: Introduction by Michael Slater Hardcover - 1992
by Charles Dickens; Introduction by Michael Slater
About this book
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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From the rear cover
One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickens' great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its recreation through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikes--of the vast London under--world of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children.
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: Introduction by Michael Slater
- Author Charles Dickens; Introduction by Michael Slater
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Everyman's Library, New York
- Date 1992-11-03
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780679417248 / 0679417249
- Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 8.33 x 5.23 x 1.23 in (21.16 x 13.28 x 3.12 cm)
- Ages 12 to 17 years
- Grade levels 7 - 12
- Reading level 530
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects London (England), Bildungsromans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92052899
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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"Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape.One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickenss great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creationthrough the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikesof the vast London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickens to task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believable way, but readers over the last 150 years have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver Twist one of its authors most loved works." - bookfinderThis edition reprints the original Everymans introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank.
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