- Title:
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Oliver Twist (MP3)
- Series:
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The Dickens Collection
- Written by:
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Charles Dickens
- Read by:
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Jonathan Pryce
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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2
- Duration:
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18 hours 16 minutes
- MP3 size:
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766 MB
- Published:
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September 01 2020
- Available Date:
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September 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655688945
- Genres:
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Fiction; Classic Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
Part of the Dickens Collection, an exclusive series of unmissable performances, Oliver Twist is a gleaming example of the genius and foresight of Charles Dickens.
When young orphan, Oliver Twist, is sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker, he leaves behind years of miserable servitude and mistreatment at an English workhouse. Hoping to move on to better things, he decides to escape his new, equally dreary surroundings and head to London.
It is there that the tale unravels as Oliver meets a host of larger-than-life characters, including The Artful Dodger, a high-ranking member of a juvenile pickpocketing gang, and their elderly leader, Fagin.
Desperate for affection and the sense of belonging that he has never known, Oliver unwittingly throws himself into a life of petty theft, which soon takes a violent turn with the introduction of one of Dickens's most terrifying characters, Bill Sikes.
Exposing the cruel and inhumane treatment of orphans in 19th-century England, Dickens created one of the most significant social novels of all time. With it, he condemned the establishment for neglecting homeless children and leaving them vulnerable to recruiters who would exploit and abuse them. Oliver Twist cemented Dickens’s reputation as one of the most talented, influential and revolutionary of English authors.