The release date for the English version of 'Oliver Twist' by
Charles Dickens is Jan 2003. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A compelling depiction of the seedy underworld of London crime, published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne.
Upon its publication, readers were taken aback by the tale of Oliver Twist, who was abandoned and faced hardship and evil from the moment he took his first breath. Oliver gets drawn into a den of thieves after escaping the workhouse and haughty beadle Mr. Bumble. The characters in the den are colorful and unforgettable, including the Artful Dodger, the ferocious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and the prostitute Nancy, who are all under the watchful eye of crafty master thief Fagin. Dickens invented a whole new genre of literature by fusing aspects of popular melodrama, Gothic Romance, and the Newgate Novel. This work was caustic in its criticism of a harsh society and infused with an enduring sense of mystery and peril.
This Penguin Classics edition of Oliver Twist features an introduction by Philip Horne, a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang, a chronology of Dickens's life, a map of modern-day London, and all of George Cruikshank's original illustrations. It is the first critical edition to faithfully reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it from its serialization in Bentley's Miscellany.
Penguin has been the top publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world for more than 70 years. With over 1,700 volumes, Penguin Classics is a worldwide library of the greatest works produced across genres and disciplines, throughout history. Readers trust the series to provide up-to-date translations by award-winning translators, together with authoritative texts augmented by introductions and comments by eminent academics and current writers.