Oliver Twist: or, The Parish Boy's Progress
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 48 full-page plates by John Atkinson Grimshaw, Marianne North and John Everett Millais. A workhouse boy asks for more, is sold to an undertaker, runs to London and falls in with a gang of child thieves. Dickens was twenty-five and still writing it in instalments when the outcry began about the workhouses it described; he answered his critics in a preface insisting that Nancy's life was drawn from the streets, not softened. Forty-eight plates of painting, from Delacroix to Grimshaw, trace the roads, rivers and city streets that carry a parish boy through his progress.
Complete and unabridged, with 48 full-page plates by John Atkinson Grimshaw, Marianne North and John Everett Millais. A workhouse boy asks for more, is sold to an undertaker, runs to London and falls in with a gang of child thieves. Dickens was twenty-five and still writing it in instalments when...
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist born in Portsmouth. Sent to work in a blacking factory at twelve when his father was imprisoned for debt, he became the most widely read author of his century. His works include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist born in Portsmouth. Sent to work in a blacking factory at twelve when his father was imprisoned for debt, he became the most widely read author of his century. His works include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, a...
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