Oliver Twist

Dickens, Charles

ISBN 10: 1844560805 ISBN 13: 9781844560806

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2006

Riassunto

Through the immortal characters of Oliver, Nancy, Bill Sikes, Fagin, the Artful Dodger and Mr Bumble, Dickens mercilessly sends up the hypocrisy of nineteenth-century life - the high-minded reformism of the intellectuals and the snobbery of those in power.

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L'autore:

Charles Dickens, whose pen name was Boz, is regarded by many as one of the world's greatest authors. His father, a navy clerk, was - like the fathers in many of Dickens' novels - constantly in and out of debtor's prison, and Dickens was sent to work in a blacking factory at the age of twelve. His parents' failure to educate him was a source of great bitterness to him, and he reacted to this indifference by working incredibly hard for his entire life. Beginning as an office boy in a lawyer's office, in time he became a parliamentary reporter and then a journalist. He wrote The Pickwick Papers at the age of twenty-four, and captured the popular imagination in a way no other novelist had done previously. He continued writing and reading his works in public until his sudden death in 1870.

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• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1844560805
• ISBN 13: 9781844560806
• Rilegatura: Audio CD
• Numero di pagine: 180