Oliver Twist; Or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By Boz. With Other Tales and Sketches, From Bentley's Miscellany, and Library of Fiction.

Oliver Twist; Or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By Boz. With Other Tales and Sketches, From Bentley's Miscellany, and Library of Fiction.

Author: Boz [Charles Dickens] (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)

12mo.(4.5" x 7.25")1837.Boz [Charles Dickens]. Philadelphia. Carey, Lea and Blanchard. First appearance of Oliver Twist in America (1st two chapters). Quarter tan cloth over paper boards. Spine with paper label "Tales and Sketches Vol.II - Oliver Twist by "Boz" With Tales and Sketches By Other Writers. Original binding in Poor condition, upper and lower boards with separation from spine, edgewear all over, corners bumped and rubbed, covers soiled, mild foxing throughout (see pics). Spine label rubbed, chipped, affecting text. Early sympathetic repairs evident (see pics). One of only 2000 copies originally printed, considered a scarce title. The first two chapters of Oliver Twist, followed by twelve other pieces including Handy Andy, The Spectre of Tappington, The Wide Aware Club, The Abbess and the Duchess, Edward Saville, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Richie Barter, Authors and Actors, Plunder Creek, Recollections of Childhood. The first appearance of Oliver Twist in America. The first two chapters of Oliver Twist were published in Bentley's Miscellany in February 1837. By April of the same year the American publisher Carey, Lea and Blanchard, eager for new Dickens material, published a selection of extracts from Bentleys, with pride of place going to the first two chapters of Oliver Twist. Podeschi records that 2000 copies were printed in April of 1837 (B45, p.161). A scarce work, and a significant record of the early printing and reception of Dickens' works.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and as a three-volume book in 1838. The story follows the titular orphan, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London, where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin, discovers the secrets of his parentage, and reconnects with his remaining family.

Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress as well as the 18th-century caricature series by painter William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress. In an early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises child labour, domestic violence, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own experiences as a youth contributed as well, considering he spent two years of his life in the workhouse at the age of 12 and subsequently missed out on some of his education.

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