Oliver Twist

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Frederick Busch
Afterword by Edward Le Comte

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Frederick Busch
Afterword by Edward Le Comte

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    About Oliver Twist

    One of the great novelist’s most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens’s genius.

    This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story. Oliver Twist presents some of the most sinister characters in Dickens: the master thief, Fagin; the leering Artful Dodger; the murderer, Bill Sikes…along with some of his most sentimental and comical characters. Only Dickens can give us nightmare and daydream together.

    According to George Orwell, “in Oliver Twist…Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached. Yet he managed to do it without making himself hated, and, more than this, the very people he attacked have welcomed him so completely that he has become a national institution himself.”

    With an Introduction by Frederick Busch
    and an Afterword by Edward Le Comte

    About Oliver Twist

    One of the great novelist’s most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens’s genius.

    This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story. Oliver Twist presents some of the most sinister characters in Dickens: the master thief, Fagin; the leering Artful Dodger; the murderer, Bill Sikes…along with some of his most sentimental and comical characters. Only Dickens can give us nightmare and daydream together.

    According to George Orwell, “in Oliver Twist…Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached. Yet he managed to do it without making himself hated, and, more than this, the very people he attacked have welcomed him so completely that he has become a national institution himself.”

    With an Introduction by Frederick Busch
    and an Afterword by Edward Le Comte

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    Praise

    “The greatest writer of his time.”—Edmund Wilson

    “One of the great poets of the novel, a genius of his art.”—Edgar Johnson

    “All of his characters are my personal friends—I am constantly comparing them with living persons and living persons with them, and what a spirit there was in all he wrote.”—Leo Tolstoy

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    Product Details

    Mass Market Paperback
    Published by Signet
    Apr 05, 2005 | 512 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780451529718

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    Published by Signet
    Apr 05, 2005 | 512 Pages | ISBN 9781101077696

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