Oliver Twist
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Oliver Twist
AUTHOR:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
ISBN:
9780099582632
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Vintage, 2013
PHYSICAL_DESC:
ix, 694 p. : ill. ; 19 cm
SERIES:
Vintage classics
SERIES_TITLE:
Vintage classics
ABSTRACT:
Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a romance, and a gripping story in which he exploited suspense and violence more effectively than any of his contemporaries
SUBJECT:
| Orphans -- Juvenile fiction |
| Criminals -- England -- London -- Juvenile fiction |
| Juvenile delinquents -- England -- London -- Juvenile fiction |
| Young adult fiction |
| London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction |
BIBSUMMARY:
Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a romance, and a gripping story in which he exploited suspense and violence more effectively than any of his contemporaries