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For all the myths surrounding Oliver Cromwell and Charles Stuart, there is no detailed account of any meeting between them. Yet they were almost exact contemporaries, embodying virtually everything for...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE** "Idiosyncratic and entertaining," Sunday Times "A fascinating family and social history," Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time...

Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear,...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE** "Idiosyncratic and entertaining," Sunday Times "A fascinating family and social history," Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time...

Oliver Twist- orphan, trainee pickpocket, good boy. Elbow your way through the streets of Victorian London with Dicken's most enduring child character 'Look here! Here's a jolly life! What's the...

Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in England in the mid-19th century.

Oliver Twist is born in the harsh confines of a workhouse, his mother expiring in childbirth, his father unknown. After enduring years of brutal treatment, Oliver runs away to London,...

Penguin Classics relaunch. 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...

'This ain't the shop for justice' The Artful Dodger, Oliver Twist 'The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsOliver Twist chronicles the harrowing journey of an innocent orphan navigating the brutal realities of Victorian London. This classic work...

The new Oxford World's Classics edition of Oliver Twist is based on the authoritative Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens's revised text of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA beloved classic of eighteenth-century English literature, The Vicar of Wakefield chronicles the trials and tribulations of Dr. Charles Primrose, a good-natured...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens' most celebrated...

Penguin Classics relaunch. 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...

Oliver Twist- orphan, trainee pickpocket, good boy. Elbow your way through the streets of Victorian London with Dicken's most enduring child character 'Look here! Here's a jolly life! What's the...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse -...

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Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street...

Dickens had already achieved renown with 'The Pickwick Papers'. With 'Oliver Twist' his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In the grimy underworld of Victorian London, a young...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the English language have seared the conscience of a nation quite like Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens' second novel follows the orphaned Oliver —...

Author: Charles DickensFormat: Leather / fine binding, 152mm x 236mm, 1496 pagesPublished: Union Square & Co., United States, 2010Brings together five of Charles Dickens' best-known novels: "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew 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...

The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A cornerstone of Victorian literature, Oliver Twist chronicles the...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsOliver Twist chronicles the harrowing journey of an orphan navigating the brutal underbelly of 19th-century London. This classic work of...

Edition: First editionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA richly detailed work of literary biography and history, Dickens at Doughty...

Charles Dickens's second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself sucked into the criminal underworld of London....

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Please, sir, I want some more.' An...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Chancellor Press, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents two seminal works by Charles Dickens, offering a profound look into the social fabric of Victorian...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsOliver Twist chronicles the harrowing journey of an innocent orphan navigating the brutal realities of Victorian London. This classic work of...

A magnificent new biography of the man who gave us David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Ebenezer Scrooge This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the...

The award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Children has created an unflinching yet deeply humane portrait of a young family's journey through a medical crisis, laying bare...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. DJ - chipped...

The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They...

Featuring Eric Kincaid's marvellous illustrations, this series of books has been especially written to introduce the younger reader to the great classics of children's literature. These abridged versions feature all...

Showing you what others only tell you. A unique visual guide on all aspects of olives and olive oil, from how olives are grown and the oil is extracted, to...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA charming collection of classic literature retellings, Children's Stories From Dickens presents beloved tales from the works of Charles Dickens, lovingly adapted...

Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien...

Penguin Classics relaunch. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA richly crafted biographical work, A Hand Upon The Time: A Life Of Charles Dickens chronicles the remarkable...

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