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Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens ; Kathleen Mary Tillotson (ed.).

Oxford Scholarly Editions Online Nineteenth Century Prose Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author.
Contributor:
Tillotson, Kathleen, 1906-2001, editor.
Series:
Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Orphans--England--London--Fiction.
Orphans.
England--Social conditions--Fiction.
England.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)
Place of Publication:
[Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Summary:
The new Oxford World's Classics edition of Oliver Twist is based on the authoritative Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens's revised text of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in which he defended himself against hostile criticism, and includes all 24 original illustrations by George Cruikshank. Stephen Gill's groundbreaking Introduction gives a fascinating new account of the novel. He also provides appendices on Dickens and Cruikshank, on Dickens'sPreface and the Newgate Novel Controversy, on Oliver Twist and the New Poor Law and on thieves' slang.
Notes:
Previously issued in print: 1966.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 16, 2016).
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-19-183244-8
OCLC:
1119615563

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