Dickens Charles - Oliver Twist - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award - winning Coralie Bickford - Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high - quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The story of the orphan Oliver who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch - villain Fagin the artful Dodger the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction scathing in its indictment of a cruel society and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.
Title: Oliver Twist
Author(s): Dickens Charles
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141192499
Pages: 608 Pages
Publication Date: 9/28/2010
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Category: Classic Fiction