Dickens, Charles. This Penguin Classics edition of “Oliver Twist” is the first critical edition to faithfully reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it from its serialisation in” Bentley’s Miscellany,” and includes an introduction by Philip Horne, a glossary of Victorian thieves’ slang, a chronology of Dickens’s life, a map of contemporary London and all of George Cruikshank’s original illustrations.