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Oliver Twist

By
Charles Dickens
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter.

Illustrations by George Cruickshank.

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, temptation and the eventual triumph of
good in the face of great adversity.

Oliver Twist 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, Nancy and
'the Artful Dodger'.

For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian
literary colossus, Oliver Twist is, without doubt, an essential title.

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