Dickens's novel holds a settled place in English literature and remains among the most widely read of his works. Though written as fiction, it draws a close picture of the people, the society and the social institutions of its period, and much of its force comes from that accuracy rather than from invention alone.
Its figures have long outlived the book's first readers. Fagin stands for organised crime and the underworld that sustains it; Nancy, for the helplessness of those the system uses up and discards. Oliver himself carries the novel's other argument — that good can, in the end, prevail over what is ranged against it.
This is an English-language edition published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. under the Gunasena Classics imprint, a series bringing standard works of English fiction to Sri Lankan readers. Gunasena is a long-established Sri Lankan publishing house producing books in Sinhala and English, and its classics line is widely used by school and home readers working through English literature.
Suitable for students reading Dickens for the first time, for teachers wanting a plain edition of a set text, and for general readers who want the novel itself without apparatus. Readers outside Sri Lanka who collect locally published editions of English classics may also want it for the imprint.
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789552117138
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