‘A parish child – the orphan of a workhouse – the humble, half-starved drudge – to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none.’ So begins the story of young Oliver, thrust into the grimy London underworld and the company of the most memorably drawn villains in all of English fiction: the treacherous gangmaster Fagin, the menacing thug Bill Sikes, and the irrepressible Artful Dodger. Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, Dickens’ novel is at once a furious indictment of poverty and an adventure story saturated with threat and pervasive evil. This Penguin English Library edition presents one of the great works of the nineteenth century in a series of 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
ISBN 13: 9780141198880
Author: Charles Dickens
