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Oliver Twist: Or The Parish Boy's Progress
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Oliver Twist: Or The Parish Boy's Progress Paperback - 2014

by Dickens, Charles

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Oliver Twist: Or The Parish Boy's Progress
  • Author Dickens, Charles
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Date 2014
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1497598559I3N10
  • ISBN 9781497598553 / 1497598559
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.41 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.04 cm)
  • Ages 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 530
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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About this book

Oliver Twist, published in 1838, became one of English writer Charles Dickens's better-known stories and was the first Victorian novel with a child protagonist. 

Oliver Twist
(Parish Boy's Progress) focuses on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the "Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by an elderly criminal Fagin. The book shows an unromantic portrayal of criminals and the treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.

First Edition Identification

Oliver Twist was first published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838 before the serialization ended.

The first edition was published by Richard Bentley in London, 1838. Octavo, three volumes, original reddish-brown cloth, gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panels marked with a stamp. Features 24 illustrated plates by George Cruikshank. 

The first issue has the "Fireside" plate in volume 3 and "Boz" listed as the author on all title pages. It was issued on November 9, 1838. At Dicken's insistence, the Fireside plate was replaced with the "Church" plate, and Dickens's name replaced "Boz". The book was then reissued in three volumes 7 days after the first issue, on November 16.

The First US Edition of Oliver Twist was published in New York by Jemima M. Lewer in 1838, as two volumes, bound in modern brown quarter-leather bindings, with marbled paper boards.

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