(Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting)
Charles Dickens
"Please, sir, I want some more."
Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse and immediately deprived of every comfort. Orphaned, starved, and sold into service as an undertaker's apprentice, he escapes to London — where he falls into the hands of Fagin's criminal gang. Oliver's journey through the criminal underworld of Victorian London, the warmth he discovers in unexpected places, and his eventual struggle to claim his true identity forms one of Dickens's most urgent and morally charged narratives.
Published in serial form between 1837 and 1839, Oliver Twist was Dickens's direct attack on the Poor Law and the workhouse system — a work of compassionate rage that exposed the cruelty of a society that blamed the poor for their own poverty. The vivid cast of characters — Fagin, Bill Sikes, the Artful Dodger, Nancy — have become permanent inhabitants of the cultural imagination.
This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents Dickens's original, unabridged text — a perfect volume for collectors of Victorian and classic literature.
