Oliver Twist: With 36 Illustrations and a Free Audio Link.

by Charles Dickens, Fugu-Fish Publishing

Overview

Oliver Twist: With 36 Illustrations and a Free Audio Link.

By Charles Dickens

"Please sir, can I have some more?"

In this gripping tale of kidnapping, shooting and murder, Charles Dickens shows the threats to a vulnerable boy's existence and asks the eternal question: which is more powerful, good or evil?

The story follows the orphan Oliver Twist. He starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London where he walks the dark and dangerous streets of the Victorian capital. He meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets, which is led by the elderly criminal Fagin. Oliver enters a world of people so poor and desperate that they will take any risk and know no mercy. He goes on a terrifying journey where he is pursued by the menacing criminal underworld. Who can Oliver trust? Are his friends strong enough to resist the determined plotting of desperate villains?

Highlights of this edition are:

• 36 illustrations and photos.
• A free web links to the full-length audio recording of the book – to either listen to online, or download.
• It is formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your Nook reader.
• An active (easy to use) Table of Contents listing every chapter accessible from the Nook "go to" feature.
• Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Nook's Text-to-Speech features.
• Plus, about the Author section.
• 786 pages (in the Nook format) for a very low price.

This book is unabridged and the story appears as it was first published in 1837.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156780273
Publisher:	Fugu-Fish Publishing
Publication date:	09/10/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	413,980
File size:	4 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In 1824, young Charles was withdrawn from school and forced to work at a boot-blacking factory when his improvident father, accompanied by his mother and siblings, was sentenced to three months in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