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OLIVER TWIST
by DICKENS, CHARLES
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada
Item Price
$704.43$563.54
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About This Item
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Revised Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. pp: [v]vi-xii [1]2-311. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected with Twenty-Four Illustrations on Steel, By George Cruikshank. Full red Bayntun Riviere leather trimmed in gilt with Dickens cameo, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, and facsimile of author's signature stamped in gilt on the back board. Decorated endpapers, and twenty-four steel engravings by Cruikshank. Contains the author's preface to The Third Edition, dated April, 1841. Laid in is a single typed page with the Eckels collation.
Coming-of-age, poverty, prison, criminals, violence. One of Dickens' best novels.
Coming-of-age, poverty, prison, criminals, violence. One of Dickens' best novels.
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
- MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005714
- Title
- OLIVER TWIST
- Author
- DICKENS, CHARLES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Publisher
- Bradbury & Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1846
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Classic Novels, Nineteenth Century, Street Crime, Pickpocket, Coming of age, Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank, London, Underworld, Pack of Thieves, Street Gangs, Street Crime, Nineteenth Century Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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