"Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocent's unwilling, but inevitable, recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew features some of Dicken's most memorable characters, including the vicious Billy Sikes, gentle Nancy, and the juvenile pickpocket known as the Artful Dodger." -- Youth Services Team, HPL.
General Note
First published in Great Britain, 1838.
1941 Dodd Mead edition has an introduction by May Lamberton Becker.
1966 Penguin English Library edition is edited by Peter Fairclough, with an introduction by Angus Wilson.
1960 Peebles Classic Library edition is edited by Sandy Lesberg.
1988 Signet Classic edition contains an afterword by Edward Le Comte.
1998 TOR edition includes notes on the life of Charles Dickens, foreward and afterword by Nancy Springer.
2003 Penguin Classics trade paperback edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Philip Horne.