Oliver Twist.: In two volumes.
by DICKENS, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Oliver Twist , published in 1838, became one of English writer Charles Dickens's better-known stories and was the first Victorian novel with a child protagonist. Oliver Twist ( Parish Boy's Progress ) focuses on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the "Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by an elderly criminal Fagin . The book shows an unromantic portrayal of criminals and the treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 166600
- Title
- Oliver Twist.
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, successors to Carey & Co.,
- Date Published
- 1839 [though December 1838]
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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