Oliver Twist
This collection of four major works displays Dickens at the height of his writing skills.Oliver Twist,1838, is a novel of social protest set in London's Victorian underworld. A Tale of Two Cities, 1859, is Dickens's great novel of the French Revolution. Great Expectations, 1861, is both comic and...
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This collection of four major works displays Dickens at the height of his writing skills.Oliver Twist,1838, is a novel of social protest set in London's Victorian underworld. A Tale of Two Cities, 1859, is Dickens's great novel of the French Revolution. Great Expectations, 1861, is both comic and tragic, filled with memories of childhood fairytales with a twist. Also includes everyone's favorite holiday classic -- A Christmas Carol, 1843.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780141192499 (0141192496)
ASIN: 141192496
Publish date: October 1st 2009
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 554
Edition language: English
Enjoyable and sad. Definitely worth the read.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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