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Oxford University PressPublication date
4th March 2010ISBN
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Oliver Twist (Oxford Children's Classics)
Charles Dickens
Part of the 'Oxford Children's Classics S.' Series
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Julia Eccleshare's comment:
Well-produced for younger readers, this handsome and easy-to-read edition makes an excellent introduction to one of Charles Dickens’s best-loved novel. The story of Oliver, the boy who famously asked for “More” leading to his expulsion from the workhouse and subsequent life as a pickpocket in Fagin’s gang has been successfully adapted many times but it is worth returning to the original story to relish all of the detail.
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Oliver Twist (Oxford Children's Classics) by Charles DickensIf you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When Oliver Twist asks for more food it changes his life for ever. He flees his dreary life in the workhouse but enters a much more dangerous place - the dark streets of London. Oliver is soon in the clutches of Fagin and his gang of pickpockets before eventually finding a true friend, but his happiness is short-lived as Fagin and the violent Bill Sykes are determined to drag Oliver back into a life of crime ...
About The Author
Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire, during the new industrial age, which gave birth to theories of Karl Marx. Dickens's father was a clerk in the navy pay office. He was well paid but often ended in financial troubles. In 1814 Dickens moved to London, and then to Chatham, where he received some education. The schoolmaster William Giles gave special attention to Dickens, who made rapid progress. In 1824, at the age of 12, Dickens was sent to work for some months at a blacking factory, Hungerford Market, London, while his father John was in Marshalsea debtor's prison.
"My father and mother were quite satisfied," Dickens later recalled bitterly. "They could hardly have been more so, if I had been twenty years of age, distinguished at a grammar-school, and going to Cambridge."
Later this period found its way to the novel Little Dorrit (1855-57). John Dickens paid his £40 debt with the money he inherited from his mother; she died at the age of seventy-nine when he was still in prison.
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