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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist( )
Retold by: Tempest, Deborah
Author: Dickens, Charles
Blackmore, R. D.
Editor: Hopkins, Andy
Potter, Jocelyn
Series title:Penguin Readers Audio Pack Ser.
ISBN:978-0-582-42688-7
Publication Date:Nov 2000
Publisher:Pearson Education, Limited
Imprint:Longman
Book Format:Paperback
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Book Description:

Oliver's mother dies when he is born and he is brought up in a workhouse. His first years are cold and lonely - and then he runs away to London. But he falls into the hands of Fagin and the terrifying Bill Sykes. They try to turn Oliver into a criminal. Can he escape to find a better life?

One of Charles Dickens' best-known stories brings the streets of nineteenth-century London to life.

Author Biography
Dickens, Charles (Retold by)
Charles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on February 7, 1812. His happy early childhood was interrupted when his father was sent to debtors' prison, and young Dickens had to go to work in a factory at age twelve. Later, he took jobs as an office boy and journalist before publishing essays and stories in the 1830s.

His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, made him a famous and popular author at the age of twenty-five. Subsequent works were published serially in periodicals and cemented his reputation as a master of colorful characterization, and as a harsh critic of social evils and corrupt institutions. His many books include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities.

Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, and the couple had nine children before separating in 1858 when he began a long affair with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. Despite the scandal, Dickens remained a public figure, appearing often to read his fiction. He died in 1870, leaving his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.

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