Oliver Twist: Charles Dickens (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141192496 ISBN 13: 9780141192499

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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 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. 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., Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely newkind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

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Críticas

"The power of [Dickens] is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive, and must follow him whithersoever he leads." --William Makepeace Thackeray

Biografía del autor

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers (1836-7). His novels then captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years, including, A Christmas Carol (1843), A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1861).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0141192496
• ISBN 13: 9780141192499
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 608
• Herausgeber: Horne Philip
• Zeichner: Bickford-Smith Coralie