This is a retelling of the classic Charles Dickens' story for children growing in their reading confidence & ability It is part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts from Roehampton University The audio CD

Includes:: a dramatic listen-along recording with music & sound effects followed by a read-along version with prompts for page turns

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Look here! Here's a jolly life! What's the odds where it comes from?' Meet the Artful Dodger as roistering & swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four foot six With him you'll run down the dirty backstreets of London to be entertained by the Respectable Old Gentleman & his brood of thieves & pickpockets Fagin will bring you to the trade' & make something of you something profitable But there's something about the young orphan Oliver that's too good for this dark & dangerous world
- can he ever escape its clutches?
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Please sir I want some more' Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on Fleeing from poverty & 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 & lost & homeless children & gives a voice to the disadvantaged & abused Also in the Vintage Classics Dickens Series A Christmas Carol A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield Great Expectations Hard Times ...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design 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 & memorable characters
- the arch-villain Fagin the artful Dodger the menacing Bill Sikes & the prostitute Nancy Combining elements of Gothic Romance the Newgate Novel & popular melodrama Dickens created an entirely newkind of fiction scathing in its indictment of a cruel society & pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat & mystery
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Introduction & Notes by Dr Ella Westland University of Exeter Illustrations by George Cruickshank Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced & strengthened The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes
- grinding poverty desperation fear temptation & the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more) the tyrannical Bumble the diabolical Fagin the menacing Bill Sikes Nancy & 'the Artful Dodger' For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian literary colossus Oliver Twist is without doubt an essential title
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In the dark dangerous streets of Victorian London Oliver enters the world of people so poor & desperate that they will take any risk & know no mercy Relentlessly pursued by the menacing criminal world who should Oliver trust? Are his true friends strong enough to resist the determined plotting of desperate villains? In this gripping tale of kidnapping shooting & murder Charles Dickens shows the threats to a vulnerable boy's existence & asks the eternal question which is more powerful good or evil? ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens'A parish child
- the orphan of a workhouse
- the humble

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The story of orphaned Oliver who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves Plunged into a dark criminal underworld of vivid & memorable characters
- the arch-villain Fagin the artful Dodger the menacing Bill Sikes & kind-hearted Nancy
- Oliver struggles to survive & find his real family A rich powerful look at London poverty from Charles Dickens

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Oliver grows up in an orphanage & when he dares to ask for more is cast out into a world of colourful characters in which he will have to keep his wits about him & pick a pocket or two to survive A retelling of the classic Charles Dickens story for children growing in their reading confidence & ability Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts from Roehampton University ...

Oliver Twist barely survives childhood in the workhouse When he runs away to London he is taken in by a gang of thieves Wealthy Mr Brownlow rescues him but the thieves snatch Oliver back & it seems that he has no hope of escaping a life of crime With fun activities after the story & online audio in British & American English R ...