Oliver Twist

The Resource Oliver Twist
Label
Oliver Twist
Statement of responsibility
Charles Dickens ; edited by Kathleen Tillotson ; with an introduction and notes by Stephen Gill
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Language
eng
Summary
Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a romance, and a gripping story in which he exploited suspense and violence more effectively than any of his contemporaries. The new Oxford World's Classics edition of Oliver Twist is based on the authoritative Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens's revised text of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in which he defended himself against hostile criticism, and includes all twenty-four original illustrations by George Cruikshank. Stephen Gill's groundbreaking introduction gives a fascinating new account of the novel. He also provides appendices on Dickens and Cruikshank, on Dickens's Preface and the Newgate Novel Controversy, on Oliver Twist and the New Poor Law and on thieves' slang
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Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
823/.8
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR4567.A2
LC item number
T54 1999eb
Literary form
fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Oxford world's classics
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