Oliver Twist (Penguin Selected Classic)

Victorian London supplies this novel with its thieves' kitchens, magistrates and riverside lodgings, and Charles Dickens knew the city he was indicting. The Penguin Selected Classic edition presents the full text of Dickens' early novel, in which a workhouse boy is passed between guardians, criminals and benefactors. Running alongside the plot is a sustained attack on the Poor Law, on institutional cruelty, and on the idea that poverty is a moral failing. Nancy's role gives the book its most difficult and most discussed chapters. Details to weigh up: • Unabridged Dickens text in the Penguin Selected Classic series • Social criticism aimed at workhouse administration and the Poor Law • A London setting drawn with street-level specificity • Uniform series presentation for building a classics collection For students of Victorian literature and adult readers of Dickens, published by Penguin and available at Boipoka.