It's hard not to like Dickens. He creates these eccentric supporting characters that are quirky, bizarre and totally lovable. But unlike so many of his masterpieces, Oliver Twist lacks a complex hero or main character. The book begins with Oliver's birth in a poor work house. His mother dies in ...
In this classic tale, Dickens narrates the story of young orphan boy Oliver Twist, born in the workhouses of an English village, and his mother dead within hours. he was raised in an environment of abject misery and petty cruelty. He had been told from the beginning that he would come to no good end...
It is Dicken's and I don't like Dicken's writing. I find it to be pompous, like the man himself. The only reason this got two stars, instead of the one star, I normally give Dicken's books is that this story somewhat interested me.
3.5 starsI'm going to be honest and say that I don't think my reading of this book did it justice. I was supposed to be reading it at a time when I was quite tired and stressed, so I didn't always absorb as much as I could when I picked it up, so you may wish to take my words with a grain of salt.I...
Oliver Twist could stand on the strength of its colorful characters alone. Dickens used his insightful eye to take in and store away all the images he was seeing in London's poorer neighborhoods back in the days when his own family found themselves in and out of the debtor's prison, always on the ve...
[These notes were made in 1983:]. It's always an odd feeling when you think you've read a famous work, and discover you haven't - that all your notions of it are from the general cultural soup and many of them are quite incorrect. I think I would have known that this was an immature work even if it ...
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