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Oliver Twist

The Graphic Novel

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens
Illustrated by George Cruikshank
Introduction by Philip Pullman

By Charles Dickens
Illustrated by George Cruikshank
Introduction by Philip Pullman

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens
Illustrated by Rajesh Nagulakonda
Adapted by Dan Johnson

By Charles Dickens
Illustrated by Rajesh Nagulakonda
Adapted by Dan Johnson

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Michael Slater

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Michael Slater

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens
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By Charles Dickens
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Part of Vintage Classics

Part of Modern Library Classics

Part of Campfire Graphic Novels

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Paperback $8.00

Jan 10, 2012 | 432 Pages

Paperback $8.00

Oct 09, 2001 | 480 Pages

Mass Market Paperback $5.95

May 01, 1982 | 480 Pages

Paperback $11.99

Aug 16, 2011 | 88 Pages | Middle Grade (8-12)

Hardcover $23.00

Nov 03, 1992 | 528 Pages

Ebook $5.99

Jan 17, 2012 | 448 Pages

Ebook $1.99

May 31, 2005 | 480 Pages

Audiobook Download $15.00

Jan 11, 2011 | 960 Minutes | Young Adult

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    About Oliver Twist

    This darkest and most colorfully grotesque of Charles Dickens’s novels swirls around one of his most beloved and unsullied heroes, the orphan Oliver Twist.

    One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation—through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikes—of the vast nineteenth-century 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 century and a half have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver one of its author’s most loved works.

    About Oliver Twist

    Dickens’s classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England’s Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger, to name a few Dickens’s second novel is a compelling social satire that has remained popular since it was first serialized in 1837-39.

    The text for this Modern Library Paperback Classic is taken from the 1846 New Edition, revised and corrected by the author. It includes new explanatory notes and an appendix, A Brief History of the English Poor Laws.

    About Oliver Twist

    This fiercely comic tale stands in marked  contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick  Papers. Set against London’s seedy back  street slums, Oliver Twist is  the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust  into a thieves’ den, where some of Dickens’s most  depraved villains preside: the incorrigible  Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the  terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose  grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the  "ghostly gallows." Yet at the heart of this  drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied  goodness leads him at last to salvation. In 1838 the  publication of Oliver Twist firmly established the  literary eminence of young Dickens. It was,  according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal  announcing to the world that in Charles Dickens the  rejected and forgotten and misused of the world had a  champion."

    About Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist’s life has been a hard and desperate one. With his mother dying during his birth, and having no idea who his father was, Oliver has spent his first nine years struggling to survive in a world that has little pity for a poor orphan
    such as him.
    After Oliver gets involved with the nefarious Fagin and the sinister Bill Sikes, he is wounded during a burglary. Oliver is rescued by Sikes’s intended victims, the young Rose Maylie, and her guardian, Mrs Maylie. At last, the boy finds a loving
    home and people who care for him.
    But how long will Oliver’s happiness endure, especially when Fagin begins to conspire with a mysterious stranger with a link to the boy’s past?

    About Oliver Twist

    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 Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation–through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikes–of 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 author’s most loved works.

    This edition reprints the original Everyman’s introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank.

    (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

    About Oliver Twist

    Dickens’s classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England’s Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger, to name a few Dickens’s second novel is a compelling social satire that has remained popular since it was first serialized in 1837-39.

    The text for this Modern Library Paperback Classic is taken from the 1846 New Edition, revised and corrected by the author. It includes new explanatory notes and an appendix, A Brief History of the English Poor Laws.

    About Oliver Twist

    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 Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation–through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikes–of 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 author’s most loved works.

    This edition reprints the original Everyman’s introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank.

    (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)




    From the Hardcover edition.

    About Oliver Twist

    Dickens’s classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England’s Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger, to name a few Dickens’s second novel is a compelling social satire that has remained popular since it was first serialized in 1837-39.

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    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

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    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

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    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $8.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 10, 2012 | 432 Pages | 5-5/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307947185

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $8.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Oct 09, 2001 | 480 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375757846

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    May 01, 1982 | 480 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553211023

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Children’s Middle Grade Books | Children’s Picture Books

    Paperback | $11.99
    Published by Campfire
    Aug 16, 2011 | 88 Pages | 6-1/2 x 10-1/4 | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9789380028569

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $23.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Nov 03, 1992 | 528 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679417248

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 17, 2012 | 448 Pages | ISBN 9780307950567

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    May 31, 2005 | 480 Pages | ISBN 9780553901566

    Category: Literary Fiction | Teen & Young Adult | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $15.00
    Published by Listening Library (Audio)
    Jan 11, 2011 | 960 Minutes | Young Adult | ISBN 9780307916051

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    “The power of [Dickens] is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive, and must follow him whithersoever he leads.” –William Makepeace Thackeray

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