![]() ![]() When a thieving mission goes wrong, Oliver. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets. After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions-editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them. Charles Dickens' classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London. Each of these ten numbers, including the Cruikshank illustrations and the advertisements, is included in this facsimile reprint of the 1846 edition. : Oliver Twist (Penguin Clothbound Classics) (9780141192499) by Dickens, Charles and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. It was issued with some corrections and revisions in ten numbers in 1846 by Bradbury and Evans (which then also issued the same text in a single volume). Oliver Twist was first published in serialised form (with illustrations by George Cruikshank) in Bentley's Miscellany between February 1837 and April 1839. Intended to raise feeling against the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 (which had emphasized the workhouse as an appropriate means of dealing with the problem of poverty), Oliver Twist also provides a sweeping portrait of London life in the 1830s-including the life of the criminal elements in society. Charles Dickens’s famous second novel recounts the story of a boy born in the workhouse and raised in an infant farm as he tries to make his way in the world. ![]()
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