Oliver Twist (Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens PDF

By Charles Dickens

ISBN-10: 1904633080

ISBN-13: 9781904633082

Charles Dickens could be the English-speaking world’s so much loved novelist—and Oliver Twist is one among his most well liked works. A heartbreaking story that portrays the cruelty of the Victorian period at its worst, it's been tailored for movie, for the theatre (including the vintage musical, Oliver!), and for tv. Dickens’s darkish and gritty tale follows the adventures of an unlucky orphan who is going from a harsh paintings condo into to the broader, extra harmful global of the London slums. some of the book’s characters became loved ones names, particularly the colourful criminals Fagin and the “Artful Dodger.” jam-packed with pity, suspense, humor, and power, Oliver Twist captures the exciting conflict of fine opposed to evil...all with an blameless younger boy at its heart. The world's maximum works of literature at the moment are to be had in those appealing souvenir volumes. sure in genuine textile, and that includes gilt edges and ribbon markers, those superbly produced books are a superb solution to construct a good-looking library of vintage literature. those are the basic novels that belong in each domestic. they are going to shipping readers to imaginary worlds and supply pleasure, leisure, and enlightenment for future years. All of those novels characteristic appealing illustrations and feature an unrivaled interval consider that might grace the library, the bedside desk or bureau.

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Don't fret your eyelids on that score,' said the young gentleman. 'I've got to be in London to-night; and I know a 'spectable old gentleman as lives there, wot'll give you lodgings for nothink, and never ask for the change—that is, if any genelman he knows interduces you. And don't he know me? Oh, no! Not in the least! By no means. ' The young gentleman smiled, as if to intimate that the latter fragments of discourse were playfully ironical; and finished the beer as he did so. This unexpected offer of shelter was too tempting to be resisted; especially as it was immediately followed up, by the assurance that the old gentleman referred to, would doubtless provide Oliver with a comfortable place, without loss of time.

There was a deal table before the fire: upon which were a candle, stuck in a ginger-beer bottle, two or three pewter pots, a loaf and butter, and a plate. In a frying-pan, which was on the fire, and which was secured to the mantelshelf by a string, some sausages were cooking; and standing over them, with a toasting-fork in his hand, was a very old shrivelled Jew, whose villainous-looking and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted red hair. He was dressed in a greasy flannel gown, with his throat bare; and seemed to be dividing his attention between the frying-pan and the clothes-horse, over which a great number of silk handkerchiefs were hanging.

Here's a penny for you. Bumble, just step up to Sowerberry's with your cane, and see what's best to be done. ' 'No, I will not, sir,' replied the beadle. And the cocked hat and cane having been, by this time, adjusted to their owner's satisfaction, Mr. Bumble and Noah Claypole betook themselves with all speed to the undertaker's shop. Here the position of affairs had not at all improved. Sowerberry had not yet returned, and Oliver continued to kick, with undiminished vigour, at the cellardoor. The accounts of his ferocity as related by Mrs.

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