[英文原版]OliverTwist ISBN9780553211023 Published3 June2005 by Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub Format Paperback Author(s)By Dickens,Charles SeriesBantamClassics This fiercely comic tale standsin marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers,Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is thesaga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den,where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: theincorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and theterrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knaverythreatens to send them all to the ghostly gallows. Yet at the heartof this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leadshim at last to salvation. In 1838 the publication of Oliver Twistfirmly established the literary eminence of young Dickens. It was,according to Edgar Johnson, a clarion peal announcing to the worldthat in Charles Dickens the rejected and forgotten and misused ofthe world had a champion.
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