Oliver Twist (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Oliver Twist (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) - Hardcover

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Oliver Twist (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
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Oliver Twist (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) - Hardcover

Oliver Twist (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) - Hardcover

by Charles Dickens
$71.93
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Book Overview

The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin. Oliver, an innocent child, is trapped in a world where his only options seem to be the workhouse, a life of crime symbolized by Fagin's gang, a prison, or an early grave. From this unpromising setting, Oliver's pure-heart leads him on an adventure of a lifetime.

Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirizes the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children.

This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

ISBN9781774762097
Author Charles Dickens
PublisherRoyal Classics
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedFebruary 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages400
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation, but also the horror of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and "slave" factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years' formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

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