EAN: 9780141192499

A PENGUIN CLASSICS HARDCOVER OLIVER TWIST - C...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series  designed by the award-winning
Coralie Bickford-Smith  these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality
colourful  tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.   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's 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 popular melodrama  Dickens created an entirely new
kind of fiction  scathing in its indictment of a cruel society  and pervaded by an
unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

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