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by Charles Dickens, Irving Howe
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Aren's Library
Aren's Library rated it 8 years ago
Enjoyable and sad. Definitely worth the read.
riley
riley rated it 9 years ago
Dickens second novel is a landmark is socially conscious novels and I can well imagine the impact it had on the reading public, given not only its story of a helpless young boy, but also the description with which Dickens captures, with a great deal of vividness, the lives of the poorer people in gr...
Cody's Bookshelf
Cody's Bookshelf rated it 9 years ago
Synopsis: Brought into the world by a drunken nurse and an inept surgeon, innocent young Oliver Twist couldn’t have known the mysterious circumstances surrounding his birth—that his mother had been discovered wandering the streets, near bursting with child, and had died ignominiously on the cold bed...
Books Less Travelled
Books Less Travelled rated it 9 years ago
Cover: Fitting Rating Up 4 dismal starsOverall: An interesting readCharacters: Well writtenPlot: Follow young Oliver into the dark, back-alleys of LondonPage Turner: Yes, for some Series Cont.? N/a Recommend YesFavorite Character: the Artful DodgerSUMMARY (50 word or so)This book is... not for eve...
Abandoned by user
Abandoned by user rated it 9 years ago
Oliver Twist. The injustice. The hypocrisy. The melodrama. There is something so satisfyingly symmetrical about reading Oliver Twist in the very week that one of America's most perniciously vicious public moralizers - and by that phrase, I mean the Duggar family - completely and hopefully irrevoc...
AmySea
AmySea rated it 10 years ago
Oliver Twist was "ok." I have to be honest, given that I've heard how much flak Dickens received for his portrayal of the poor classes in Victorian England, I was expecting a much darker and less hopeful story. Maybe something more along the lines of what this would have been if it had been writte...
riley
riley rated it 10 years ago
I first read this as a tween and I honestly didn't remember much of it at all. Though I kind of have a love/hate relationship with Dickens, it's pretty tough to say anything bad about this story. It's so unbelievably canonical I have trouble putting it into words. List off a mystery / horror cliche ...
Jenny's Book Bag
Jenny's Book Bag rated it 11 years ago
Not my favorite Dickens novel, but still worth reading.
Jenny's Book Bag
Jenny's Book Bag rated it 11 years ago
Not my favorite Dickens novel, but still worth reading.
Karen's books
Karen's books rated it 11 years ago
Just finished this story, knowing that now the bar has been raised so high that anything I read next will be a disappointment. For those who have not yet read Oliver Twist... yes it is that good. It will consume my thoughts for the rest of the day, and then some. And that's just fine...
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