Oliver Twist
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Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Few novels in the English literary canon have captured the brutal realities of Victorian poverty with such unflinching moral force as Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. Published serially between 1837 and 1839, the novel chronicles the harrowing journey of young Oliver, a workhouse orphan who escapes a life of institutional cruelty only to fall into the clutches of London's criminal underworld — a shadowy realm presided over by the calculating Fagin and his gang of child pickpockets. With biting satirical wit and an eye for crushing social injustice, Dickens indicts the hypocrisies of the English Poor Law system and the moral bankruptcy of those in power. This 1966 Clarendon Press edition, meticulously edited by the distinguished Dickens scholar Kathleen Tillotson, presents the text with rigorous academic authority, drawing on original manuscript sources to offer readers the most faithful rendering of Dickens' intent. Tillotson's editorial scholarship illuminates the novel's complex publication history, including its original serialisation in *Bentley's Miscellany*, and restores nuances lost in later Victorian printings. Dickens' prose — at once comic and devastating — conjures characters of unforgettable vividness, from the monstrous Bill Sikes to the enigmatic Nancy, whose tragic arc remains one of literature's most powerful portraits of loyalty and victimhood. This is not merely a novel about a boy's survival; it is a searing indictment of an entire society that asks whether goodness can endure in a world determined to crush it.
Author: Charles Dickens
Format: Hardback
Published: 1966, Oxford at the Clarendon Press
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Few novels in the English literary canon have captured the brutal realities of Victorian poverty with such unflinching moral force as Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. Published serially between 1837 and 1839, the novel chronicles the harrowing journey of young Oliver, a workhouse orphan who escapes a life of institutional cruelty only to fall into the clutches of London's criminal underworld — a shadowy realm presided over by the calculating Fagin and his gang of child pickpockets. With biting satirical wit and an eye for crushing social injustice, Dickens indicts the hypocrisies of the English Poor Law system and the moral bankruptcy of those in power. This 1966 Clarendon Press edition, meticulously edited by the distinguished Dickens scholar Kathleen Tillotson, presents the text with rigorous academic authority, drawing on original manuscript sources to offer readers the most faithful rendering of Dickens' intent. Tillotson's editorial scholarship illuminates the novel's complex publication history, including its original serialisation in *Bentley's Miscellany*, and restores nuances lost in later Victorian printings. Dickens' prose — at once comic and devastating — conjures characters of unforgettable vividness, from the monstrous Bill Sikes to the enigmatic Nancy, whose tragic arc remains one of literature's most powerful portraits of loyalty and victimhood. This is not merely a novel about a boy's survival; it is a searing indictment of an entire society that asks whether goodness can endure in a world determined to crush it.