Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens
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A special edition of Oliver Twist for the bicentenary year - new cover to be winner of a photography competition

Available Formats

  • Oliver Twist Paperback ISBN: 9780099561439 Published: 15/04/2012 Imprint: Vintage Classics Extent: 496 pages Subject: Classics $12.95 RRP
  • Oliver Twist Paperback ISBN: 9780099511939 Published: 03/09/2007 Imprint: Vintage Classics Extent: 496 pages Subject: Classics $12.95 RRP Buy Now
  • Oliver Twist Hardback ISBN: 9781857151107 Published: 02/12/1992 Imprint: Everyman Extent: 428 pages Subject: Classics $32.95 RRP Buy Now
  • Oliver Twist EBook ISBN: 9781407092683 Published: 01/07/2010 Imprint: Vintage Digital Extent: 496 pages Subject: Classics $12.95 RRP Buy Now

Synopsis

Meet the artful Dodger, as roistering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four foot six. Meet the brutal Bill Sikes, and Respectable Old Gentleman Fagin with his brood of thieves and pickpockets. Meet Nancy, trained since she was a child to be loyal to her fellow crooks to the death, until the arrival of the sweetly innocent orphan Oliver Twist makes her look at her dark world with new eyes. Experience Dickens' vision of London's murky underworld and the unforgettable characters that wander its streets, from the desperate and vulnerable to the black-hearted and chillingly villainous.

Editorial Reviews

"An unforgettable journey into criminal behaviour that takes me back to my own childhood fantasies" - Malcolm McLaren

"The power of [Dickens] is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive" - William Makepeace Thackeray

"Dickens is huge - like the sky. Pick any page of Dickens and it's immediately recognizable as him, yet he might be doing social satire, or farce, or horror, or a psychological study of a murderer - or any combination of these" - Susannah Clarke

"The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the possibility of a lucrative career in authorship is always compelling" - Guardian

"We leave him most reluctantly, and so will every reader who has any capacity to see and feel whatsoever is most loveable, hateful, or laughable, in the character of the everyday life about him" - Examiner

"Dickens has genius to vivify his observation" - Spectator

"He deals truly with human nature, which never can degrade; he takes up everything, good, bad, or indifferent, which he works up into a rich alluvial deposit.He is natural, and that never can be ridiculous" - Quarterly Review

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