This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist includes: • The complete, unabridged text (from the final edition Dickens oversaw in 1865) • 44 full-color illustrations by George Cruikshank and Frederick W. ...

Throughout the novel, Charles Dickens is able to portray the hardships of each social class during the trying times of the French Revolution in a way that is both profoundly elegant and heartbreaking at the same time.

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It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel represents Dickens's peak and maturity as an author. It is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s.

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Charles Dickens's unsentimental and poignant portrayal of London in the early 1800s is simultaneously an uplifting tale and a violent narrative of corruption, degradation, and greed.