01455nam a22002177a 4500 OSt 20251215065921.0 250730b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780141439747 Goethe Zentrum Library English FP2002/17 Dickens, Charles Oliver Twist The Parish Boy's Progress England Penguin Classics 2002 1iii, 553p. illustriert, 12cmx19cm 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 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 the popular melodrama, in Oliver Twist Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruek society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery. This is the first critical edition to use the serial text of 1837-9, presenting Oliver Twist as it appeared to its earliest readers. it includes Dicken's 1841 introduction and 1850 preface, the original illustrations and a glossary of contemporary slang Horne, Philip Editor Custom FP 0 177 177 0 0 Custom 0 0 GZKL GZKL 2025-07-30 0 FP2002/17 2025-0207 2025-07-30 05:15:11 2025-07-30 FP