![]() ![]() ![]() We are proud to be a family business that aims to create brilliant books for children of all. Oliver Twist has been the subject of numerous adaptations for various media, including a highly successful musical play, Oliver, and the multiple Academy Award-winning 1968 motion picture. Only available as part of our 3 for £33 Penguin Clothbound Classics collection. Usborne is one of the worlds leading independent book publishers. After escaping, Twist ravels o London, where he. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The story centers on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. 2000 by Charles Dickens (Author), George Cruickshank (Illustrator), Ella Westland (Introduction) 897 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback £3.99 51 Used from £0.31 17 New from £3.61 1 Collectible from £8.99 Buy 4, save 5. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery. Oliver Twist (Wordsworth Classics) Paperback Illustrated, 1 Jan. ![]() Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. 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 first published. ![]()
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