{"product_id":"oliver-twist-7","title":"Oliver Twist","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Dickens’s famous second novel recounts the story of a boy born in the workhouse and raised in an infant farm as he tries to make his way in the world. Intended to raise feeling against the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 (which had emphasized the workhouse as an appropriate means of dealing with the problem of poverty), \u003cem\u003eOliver Twist\u003c\/em\u003e also provides a sweeping portrait of London life in the 1830s—including the life of the criminal elements in society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOliver Twist\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in serialised form (with illustrations by George Cruikshank) in \u003cem\u003eBentley’s Miscellany\u003c\/em\u003e between February 1837 and April 1839. It was issued with some corrections and revisions in ten numbers in 1846 by Bradbury and Evans (which then also issued the same text in a single volume). Each of these ten numbers, including the Cruikshank illustrations and the advertisements, is included in this facsimile reprint of the 1846 edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57311763464574,"sku":"NW9781551117584","price":21.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781551117584.jpg?v=1778584507","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/oliver-twist-7","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}