Oliver Twist

Dickens, Charles

ISBN 10: 0679903917 ISBN 13: 9780679903918

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers, 2006

Synopsis

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickens€™s great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation€“through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikes€“of the vast London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickens to task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believable way, but readers over the last 150 years have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver Twist one of its author€™s most loved works.This edition reprints the original Everyman€™s introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank.From the Hardcover edition.

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From the Inside Flap:

With big type, short chapters, plenty of artwork, and a text geared to a high-second-grade reading level, this skillful adaptation conveys the mood and excitement of the original in a format that will appeal to younger readers and older reluctant readers. Reading level: 2.4.

About the Author:

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, England, and spent most of his life in London. When he was twelve, his father was sent to debtor’s prison and he was forced to work in a boot polish factory, an experience that marked him for life. He became a passionate advocate of social reform and the most popular writer of the Victorian era.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0679903917
• ISBN 13: 9780679903918
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: Zallinger Jean