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1. Oliver Twist

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
An abridged version of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.

2. Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress

Book cover for "Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress"
Star rating for Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress
Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Average Rating:
5 stars
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eBook
Description:
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...