TY  - GEN
AU  - Dickens, Charles
TI  - Oliver Twist
T2  - Penguin Popular Classics
SN  - 978014062046X
CY  - Great Britain
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Young Adult Literature
KW  - Hunger
KW  - Historical Fiction
KW  - Social Issues
KW  - Social Classes
KW  - Social Inequality
N2  - The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery
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