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Oliver Twist

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Dickens’s classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England’s Poor Laws. Oliver begins life in the workhouse, graduates to the criminal underworld of London and learns to survive.

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Puffin Classics bring the very best children’s stories to a new generation.

The world-famous story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London, introduced by the hugely popular children’s author, Garth Nix.

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 and his gang of pickpockets. When a thieving mission goes wrong, Oliver narrowly avoids prison and finds himself in the care of kind Mr Brownlow. But Fagin and the brutal Bill Sikes go in search of the young orphan, determined to drag him back . . .

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Weight 0.26 kg
Dimensions 17.7 × 12.8 × 2.5 cm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

391

Language

English

Edition

Abridged edition

Dewey

823.8 (edition:22)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J