Oliver Twist: Victorian Vampire

by Charles Dickens, Steve DeWinter

Overview

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The life of a vampire is not an easy one.

It is even harder in Victorian England.

From the moment vampires emerged from the shadows and entered the general populace, the established human government considered them as nothing more than lesser-evolved creatures. Even though they were born with human attributes and intelligence, they were determined to be mere animals in human form. Into this world Oliver Twist is born with an innate sense of right and wrong. But someone is determined to corrupt his innocence before he reaches adulthood.

Much like the original tale of OLIVER TWIST (1837), OLIVER TWIST: VICTORIAN VAMPIRE (2015), complete with all new hand-drawn illustrations, is a fantasy-horror novel that exposes the emotions behind being treated as a lower class citizen solely because you were born different. It is a timeless tale of learning how to accept yourself, for who you are, without letting others damage your true character.


BONUS: Includes the Play Anytime/Anywhere Rules to the thrilling companion parlour/party game, The Hunger, set in the universe of OLIVER TWIST: VICTORIAN VAMPIRE.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157756512
Publisher:	Ramblin' Prose Publishing
Publication date:	11/29/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Born on February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens was the second of eight children in a family burdened with financial troubles. Despite difficult early years, he became the most successful British writer of the Victorian age.

In 1824, young Charles was withdrawn from school and forced to work at a boot-blacking factory when his improvident father, accompanied by his mother and siblings, was sentenced to three months in a debtor's prison. Once they were released, Charles attended a private school for three years. The young man then became a solicitor's clerk, mastered shorthand, and before long was employed as a Parliamentary reporter. When he was in his early twenties, Dickens began to publish stories and sketches of London life in a variety of periodicals.

It was the publication of Pickwick Papers (1836-1837) that catapulted the twenty-five-year-old author to national renown. Dickens wrote with unequaled speed and often worked on several novels at a time, publishing them first in monthly installments and then as books. His early novels Oliver Twist (1837-1838), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841), and A Christmas Carol (1843) solidified his enormous, ongoing popularity. As Dickens matured, his social criticism became increasingly biting, his humor dark, and his view of poverty darker still. David Copperfield (1849-1850), Bleak House (1852-1853), Hard Times (1854), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865) are the great works of his masterful and prolific period.

In 1858 Dickens's twenty-three-year marriage to Catherine Hogarth dissolved when he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. The last years of his life were filled with intense activity: writing, managing amateur theatricals, and undertaking several reading tours that reinforced the public's favorable view of his work but took an enormous toll on his health. Working feverishly to the last, Dickens collapsed and died on June 8, 1870, leaving The Mystery of Edwin Drood uncompleted.

Author biography from the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of David Copperfield.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington