Oliver Twist (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540678621)

Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, and was first published as a serial 1837-39. The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin.Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternate title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress.

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 1540678628
ISBN-13: 9781540678621
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2016
Pages: 638
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.28d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.7
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 142366 / Oliver Twist