– The 1868 edition corrected by Dickens in 1867-68.- Includes a preface by Dickens, plus an editor s note.- Contains all 12 of George Cruikshank s original illustrations.- Also contains 16 photographs from the Her Majesty s Theatre performance of Oliver Twist.- Fully-searchable table of contents.- Exquisitely formatted and presented in e-book form.Dickens exceptional second novel tells the story of orphan boy Oliver Twist, who escapes the misery of the workhouse only to fall in with a gang of London crooks, led by the legendary Fagin.The literary masterpiece uses dark humour to shine a light on the real poverty blighting London life in the 19th century, as Dickens himself once a child labourer explains in the rare foreword to this Apostrophe Books edition.