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Oliver Twist

Contents

  • The Text of Oliver Twist
  • The Author’s Preface to the Third Edition (1841)
  • Cover Illustration by George Cruikshank (Part 1, January 1846)
  • Title Page for the 1846 One-Volume Edition
  • The Contents of Oliver Twist
    • Oliver Twist (The Edition of 1846)
    • Illustration: Oliver asking for more (Cruikshank)
    • Illustration: Oliver’s reception by Fagin and the boys (Cruikshank)
  • Backgrounds and Sources
  • A Map of the London of Oliver Twist (1828)
  • [The Poor Law Debate]
  • [The Poor Law Riots]
  • Charles Dickens, Letters About Oliver Twist (1837–64)
    • To Richard Bentley, January 24, 1837
    • To Richard Bentley, May 8, 1837
    • To Thomas Beard, May 17, 1837
    • To Thomas Haines, June 3, 1837
    • To George Cruikshank, October 13, 1837
    • To John Forster, Mid-December 1837
    • To Eliza Davis, July 10, 1863
    • To Eliza Davis, November 16, 1864
  • Table of Installments and Chapter-Division in Different Editions of Oliver Twist
  • Charles Dickens, [An Appeal to Fallen Women]
  • Charles Dickens, Sikes and Nancy
  • Early Reviews
  • [John Forster], From The Examiner, September 10, 1837
  • Anonymous, From The Spectator, November 24, 1838
  • Anonymous, From The Literary Gazette, November 24, 1838
  • Anonymous, From Monthly Review, January 1839
  • [Richard Ford], From Quarterly Review, 1839
  • William Makepeace Thackeray, [On Oliver Twist] (1839–40)
  • Anonymous, Charles Dickens and His Works (April 1840)
  • Anonymous, Literary Recipes, August 1841)
  • Criticism
  • Henry James, (On Oliver Twist and Cruikshank)
  • George Gissing, Oliver Twist
  • Graham Greene, The Young Dickens
  • J. Hillis Miller, Oliver Twist
  • Harry Stone, Dickens and the Jews
  • Philip Collins, [Dickens and Murder]
  • John Bayley, Oliver Twist: Things as they really are
  • Keith Hollingsworth, The Newgate Novel and the Moral Argument, 1937–40
  • Steven Marcus, Who is Fagin?
  • Monroe Engel, The Social and Political Issues
  • James R. Kincaid, Oliver Twist: Laughter and the Rhetoric of Attack
  • Michael Slater, On Reading Oliver Twist
  • Dennis Walder, [Oliver Twist and Charity]
  • Burton M. Wheeler, The Text and Plan of Oliver Twist
  • Janet Larson, [Oliver Twist and Christian Scripture]
  • Fred Kaplan, [The Creation of Oliver Twist]
  • Robert Tracy, "The Old Story" and Inside Stories": Modish Fiction and Fictional Modes in Oliver Twist
  • David Miller, [Oliver Twist and the Police]
  • John O. Jordan, The Purloined Handkerchief
  • Gary Wills, The Loves of Oliver Twist