Oliver Twist (For Further Reading)

For Further Reading

• Fido, Martin, The World of Charles Dickens: The Life, Times and Work of the Great Victorian Novelist, Carlton, 1999.

  This book provides background information on Dickens's time, life, and work.

• Hobsbaum, Philip, A Reader's Guide to Charles Dickens, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.

  This work examines all of Dickens's work and provides a guide to readers.

• Kaplan, Fred, Dickens: A Biography, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

  This biography of Dickens is written for high school students.

• Pool, Daniel, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist — The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England, Touchstone Books, 1994.

  This fascinating volume explains all the customs of daily life in Dickens's time.