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Enter the world of Oliver Moon Junior Wizard in these fun illustrated adventures full of gruesome details extraordinary characters & a massive dose of magic Everyone at Oliver's school is really excited about taking part in the annual Festival of Magic parade but Oliver is stuck with the boring job of picking up the litter When his little sister Witch Baby hatches a baby dragon at home Oliver sees his chance to liven his role up But things don't quite go to plan ...

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Arrow is rather loosely based on the DC Comic character Oliver Queen
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This gripping take on Charles Dickens' classic remains faithful to the spirit of the novel while delivering a modern thrilling tragic & occasionally comic edge ...

Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist is a gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne The story of Oliver Twist
- orphaned & set upon by evil & adversity from his first breath
- shocked readers when it was published After running away from the workhouse & pompous beadle Mr Bumble Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid & memorable characters
- the Artful Dodger vicious burglar Bill Sikes his dog Bull's Eye & prostitute Nancy all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin Combining elements of Gothic Romance the Newgate Novel & popular melodrama Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction scathing in its indictment of a cruel society & pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat & mystery This Penguin Classics edition of Oliver Twist is the first critical edition to faithfully reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it from its serialisation in Bentley's Miscellany &

Includes:: an introduction by Philip Horne a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang a chronology of Dickens's life a map of contemporary London & all of George Cruikshank's original illustrations Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012 His most famous books including Oliver Twist Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield & The Pickwick Papers have been adapted for stage & screen & read by millions If you enjoyed Oliver Twist you may like Nicholas Nickleby & Little Dorrit also available in Penguin Classics' His novels will endure as long as the language itself' Peter Ackroyd' He is our greatest novelist
- every reread reveals more riches' Melvyn Bragg' When Dickens has once described something you see it for the rest of your life' George Orwell





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Charles Dickens' classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London Here he meets the Artful Dodger who leads him to Fagin & his gang of pickpockets When a thieving mission goes wrong Oliver narrowly avoids prison & finds himself in the care of kind Mr Brownlow But Fagin & the brutal Bill Sikes go in search of the young orphan determined to drag him back With an inspirational & light-hearted introduction by Garth Nix ...

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?
Includes: exclusive material In The Backstory' you can learn more about Oliver Twist's London! Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds & the adults in their lives Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book & Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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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 ...