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<p>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, <b>oliver Twist</b> 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. <p> 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><h3>july 20, 1861 - Saturday Review</h3><p>mr. Dickens May Be Reasonably Proud Of These Volumes.... He Has Written A Story That Is New, Original, Powerful And Very Entertaining.... It Is In His Best Vein, And Although It Is Too Slight, And Bears Many Traces Of Hasty Writing, It Is Quite Worthy To Stand Beside <i>marti

Author

Jill Karson, book editor

Publisher

San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780737704440

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction