Oliver Twist
CHARLES DICKENS
With on hierodretion and Notes by Ella Westland, Unteersity of Exeter
Illustrations by George Cruikshank
DICKENS HAD ALREADY ACHIEVED renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many elassie Dickensian themes-grinding poverty. desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity.
Oliver Teist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sikes. Nanoy and 'the Artful Dodger'.
For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the grent Victorian literary colossus. Oliver Troist is, without doubt, an essential title.