Oliver Twist (Puffin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
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Author: Charles DickensEditor: Robin H. Waterfield
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Abridged
Published: 1994-11-01
ISBN: 0140368140
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Puffin
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Book Review: Children as products of the environment
Summary: 4 Stars
Although focusing on the misfortune's of a young protagonist, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist must not be viewed as a story stictly for adolescents. Dickens, more popular in his time than in modern America, had a subtle way of unveiling the failings and shortcomings of late 19th century English society. It is my belief he hoped to alleviate the misfortunes of everyday life through change by presenting a looking-glass before the English burgeois. What better way to appeal to the decency of man than to present a tortured, half-starved, bright-eyed orphan? Readers will feel a strong sympathy toward Oliver and demand justice. Because justice is done at the close, Dickens succeeds in making his point of the strength of human spirit. He presents hope in a world of despair; sunshine in the fog of London. And although criticized as a "choppy narrative" (this "choppiness" comes stems from the original serialization of the novel) Dickens reminds those of us with a few more years under out lengthening belts, that children, regardless of their lineage, deserve the chance to flourish and will indeed lead productive, honest lives if given love and knowledge rather than hatred and brutality
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