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.
Charles Dickens was fascinated by Thomas Carlyle’s magnum opus The French Revolution; according to Dickens’ letters, he read it “500 times” and carried it with him everywhere while he was working on this novel.