Dicken's Oliver Twist | Collector's Edition

Some books deserve to be held before they are opened. This collector's edition of Dickens' Oliver Twist announces itself with the quiet authority of something made to last — a deep steel-blue cloth cover painted with the silhouetted rooftops of a Victorian London caught at that particular hour when the last light fails and the city becomes something else entirely. Gold foil lettering curves across the twilight sky with the elegance of a pickpocket who knows exactly what he's doing, a pocket watch standing in for the O — time itself woven into the title, as Dickens always understood it should be. At the foot of it all, two empty bowls. 

Inside, the novel that introduced the world to the workhouse, to Fagin's den, to the Artful Dodger and the foggy moral landscape of a city that offered its orphans very little and asked a great deal in return. Dickens wrote it with the controlled fury of someone who had seen enough to know better, and the result remains one of the most compulsively readable indictments of social injustice ever committed to paper — relentless, comic, devastating, and somehow still entirely alive. A book that earns its place on the shelf by looking exactly right there, and earns its place in the hand by being impossible to put down. 

Dicken's Oliver Twist | Collector's Edition is hard covered and measures 7.25" L x 5.25" W x 1.5" H is 461 pages long.