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Oliver Twist Paperback – Illustrated, 3 September 2007

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'This ain't the shop for justice' The Artful Dodger, Oliver Twist

'The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the possibility of a lucrative career in authorship is always compelling' Guardian

Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. In Oliver Twist, Dickens graphically conjures up the capital's underworld, full of prostitutes, thieves and lost and homeless children, and gives a voice to the disadvantaged and abused.

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An unforgettable journey into criminal behaviour that takes me back to my own childhood fantasies -- Malcolm McLaren ― Guardian

The power of [Dickens] is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive -- William Makepeace Thackeray

Dickens is huge - like the sky. Pick any page of Dickens and it's immediately recognizable as him, yet he might be doing social satire, or farce, or horror, or a psychological study of a murderer - or any combination of these -- Susanna Clarke

The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the possibility of a lucrative career in authorship is always compelling ― Guardian

We leave him most reluctantly, and so will every reader who has any capacity to see and feel whatsoever is most loveable, hateful, or laughable, in the character of the everyday life about him ― Examiner

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0099511932
Publisher ‏ : ‎ VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET; 1st edition (3 September 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780099511939
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099511939
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 - 11 years
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 3 x 20.32 cm

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Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.
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Mary Sebag-Montefiore is a best-selling children's author, whose re-tellings of classics have been published all over the world. She is the author of over 25 books and has adapted everything from Dickens to 'War and Peace'. She has also published articles on children's books academically and in the national press, and for adults, is the author of 'Women Writers of Children's Classics'. Her most recent title is 'Forgotten Fairy Tales of Kindness and Courage', published by Usborne Publishing.
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Cristella

I WILL EAT MY HEAD !! A manner of words to define a point.

Reviewed in Australia on 20 March 2015

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SIX Stars or more, the story draws on genius.
The Victorian era! This was a horrible time in English history when the so called Upper-class (and those who thought they were) walked all over the poor.
It was in such a time as this that a young feeble woman gave birth to a baby and then died. The child was counted as an orphan and a pauper and therefore a matter for distain and neglect. No one cared what became of him.
He received the barest of care, just enough to keep him alive, and for what? To be used and abused by all who should have been his protectors.
This child is given his name without love or thought but mealy through an alphabet system devised for such births.
He was in the O's for his first name, so received Oliver, and in the T's for his surname, so given the name of Twist.
Oliver entered the work house at the age of seven to work long hours with little food and much abuse and ridicule. Cruelty to such children was used for amusement by those in charge of them. Many children died as they had lived, without knowing any love or nurturing. And no one cared.
The story takes you on a journey of such hardship that you will be unable to fathom how such evil was allowed.
Yet good times do come and when they do, the reader feels that at last there is some justice in the world.
This is a classic novel of those times written with very descriptive language. Some of which used by the poor was atrocious.
One such manner of speech is the Headline I have used for the review... often said almost as an oath to prove reality.

Reviewed in Australia on 29 August 2020

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This is a fine hardcover format of the timeless Oliver Twist.

It maintains the integrity of the original text and will have a propensity to please a reader and endure shelf life.

A good yarn for budding criminologists and connoisseurs of world literature.

I am very happy.

This purchase meets my high expectations.

Leon Stokes

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It had this amazing capacity to engage me and make me scorn the ...

Reviewed in Australia on 14 February 2017

Wow! What an intense read.

From the start I was instantly drawn in by Dickens' humor and sarcasm. The way he'd mock those who mistreated Oliver by pretending to agree with them and that their intentions were noble. It had this amazing capacity to engage me and make me scorn the dirty rotten characters who sought to bully Oliver, while never making less of the suffering that was going on.

I was horrified, as much as a person can be by a fictional story, of the way people treated each other, those less fortunate, and the children in their care.

When Mr. Brownlow enters the picture, it allowed for some relief and also the continued feel of realism by having not all characters be evil.

The book is much too long to go over in detail, so I'll try and hit on just some key stuff.

I kept picturing Mr. Bumble as Mr. Smee(having him be that goofy looking and sound like that). And Fagin was Gollum with his constant groveling and "my dear" while all the time seeking to get the upperhand and wanting to kill those over him.

I loved Oliver's heart and how he strove to be good in a world that was trying to corrupt him. I smiled when reading about how he ran around helping Rose and Mrs. Maylie. I could picture that youthful enthusiasm.

Nancy's fate, though I knew it already, hit me harder than it ever had. There was something in the way it was told that was so . . . morbid. It was so terrible that the criminals couldn't even deal with it and everyone was ready to have Sikes captured.

The final chapters after that event where Sikes is fleeing from real and imaginary foes, and then the scene in London as he's at last cornered was just wow. So intense that I read it twice. Once to myself, and once outloud to my husband who I pulled down beside me going, "Oh my gosh!!! You've got to hear this!"

Really, the whole book was extremely well-written, but those chapters there were above and beyond. They were the best, most passionate, most real and heart-pounding of the story.

It was nice to see justice dolled out to most of the buggers who'd been so nasty throughout the book, and the good rewarded. Though there was some grey where the good didn't win out and the evil escaped(Sowerberry's and Charlotte/Noah). There was also a nice redemption story for one of the crinimals and a second chance for another who blew it, but you can't say he wasn't given the chance.

So many good things about this book, though I'll always be sad about Nancy.

Reviewed in Australia on 4 February 2016

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Very good facsimile of first edition

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