Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

The gaunt, pathetic figure of orphan Oliver being refused more gruel has become a literary and cultural icon, embedded in the national consciousness as a searing image of poverty and helplessness, dramatizing as it does the extent to which what is taken for granted at home is denied in the workhouse. Yet the novel, a powerful indictment of the workhouse, is also more than that, for even as Oliver escapes its callous grasp, he is snared by the criminal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582530148
• ISBN13: 9780582530140
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 144 Pages