Oliver Twist (Vintage Classics)

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This darkest and most colorfully grotesque of Charles Dickensx2019;s novels swirls around one of his most beloved and unsullied heroes, the orphan Oliver Twist.One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Dickensx2019;s great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for itsre-creationx2014;through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikesx2014;of the vast nineteenth-century 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 century and a half have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver one of its authorx2019;s most loved works.

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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 debtorx2019;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.