DICKENS, CHARLES — Oliver Twist (Oxford World's Classics)

London, Chancellor Press. 1985, Facsimile Reprint. (ISBN: 1851520066) Hardcover. Ill.: George Cruikshank. Book, When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy. A novel that exposed worst of the 19thC< workhiuse system and the London underword. Facsimile of the 1901 volume in the Oxford World Classics Series. with 24 illustrations by George Cruikshank India paper small format edition. xi.443p. illus. New/New.