OLIVER TWIST

by Charles Dickens

Overview

'Let him feel that he is one of us; once fill his mind with the idea that he has been a thief, and he's ours, - ours for his life!'

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters — the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, in Oliver Twist Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148547129
Publisher:	Nook Classics
Publication date:	07/16/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	550
File size:	398 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Un prolífico autor del siglo XIX de cuentos, juegos, novelas, novelas, ficción y no ficción; durante su vida Dickens llegó a ser conocida mundialmente por sus personajes notables, su dominio de la prosa en la narración de sus vidas y sus representaciones de las clases sociales, moral y valores de su tiempo. Algunos lo consideraban el portavoz de los pobres, porque definitivamente traía mucha conciencia de su situación, los oprimidos y los pobres. Tuvo su parte de los críticos, como Virginia Woolf y Henry James, pero también muchos admiradores, incluso en el siglo XXI.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington