Oliver Twist.
“Please, sir, I want some more”: First Edition, First Issue of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist.
DICKENS, Charles.
Item Number: 3831
London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
First edition, first issue. Octavo, three volumes, original red cloth. In near fine condition with some toning to the spine. Housed a custom clamshell box.
"Dickens turned in Oliver Twist to the novel of crime and terror Some characters are drawn with humorous realism, but for the most part humor is dimmed by gloomy memories of the author’s own neglected childhood and sensational scenes are shrouded in an atmosphere genuinely eerie and sinister That Dickens shared with his contemporaries the conviction that the novel should be an instrument of social reform is evident in Oliver Twist" (Baugh).
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