{"product_id":"oliver-twist-bantam-classics","title":"Oliver Twist (Bantam Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis fiercely comic tale stands in marked  contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is  the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust  into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most  depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose  grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the  \"ghostly gallows.\" Yet at the heart of this  drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied  goodness leads him at last to salvation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1838 the publication of Oliver Twist firmly established the  literary eminence of young Dickens. It was,  according to Edgar Johnson, \"a clarion peal  announcing to the world that in Charles Dickens the  rejected and forgotten and misused of the world had a  champion.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51344473555168,"sku":"0553211021","price":1660.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9780553211023.jpg?v=1775288485","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/products\/oliver-twist-bantam-classics","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}