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What is Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (Barron's Book Notes) about?

This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, <i>The Pickwick Papers</i>. Set against London's seedy back street slums, <i>Oliver Twist</i> is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the "ghostly gallows." Yet at the heart of this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leads him at last to salvation. In 1838 the publication of <i>Oliver Twist</i> firmly established the literary eminence of young Dickens. It was, according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal announcing to the world that in Charles Dickens the rejected and forgotten and misused of the world had a champion." <p>A guide to reading "Oliver Twist" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. </p>

Author

Nancy Holder, Virginia Morris

Publisher

Barrons Educational Series Inc

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812035322

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities