Charles Dickens' much loved novel, read by John Wells and featuring an immersive musical soundtrack to enhance your audiobook listening experience! 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. Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration and complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of ...
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Charles Dickens' much loved novel, read by John Wells and featuring an immersive musical soundtrack to enhance your audiobook listening experience! 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. Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration and complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration so that listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout. (P)1995 Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks and (P)2018 Booktrack Holding Ltd (background soundtrack only)
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Good in good dust jacket. Outline: -The story of the orphan Oliver who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves shocked readers when it was first published Dickens` tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters-the arch-villain Fagin the artful Dodger the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy Combining elements of Gothic Romance the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama in "Oliver Twist" Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction scathing in its indictment of a cruel society and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery--> Genre: Literary Fiction Classics-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Penguin Books The date of this copy is 1994 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK.
Prompt, well packaged, as offered, thank you.
Prompt, well packaged, as offered, thank you.
Angelina
Aug 9, 2007
"Please sir, I want some more"
Oliver Twist, a rich tapestry of English society in the 1830?s, is one of Charles Dickens' s best-known and well-loved works. In the first chapters, Dickens satirizes the hypocrisy and flaws of Victorian social institutions (under the Poor Laws of 1834) including the treatment of the poor, the exploitation of the innocent, the corruption of society´s government, its laws and criminal system. Oliver Twist journeys from innocence to experience without capitulating to the evil forces that hinder his progress and, thus addresses the pervasive problem of evil in society and human nature. Dickens uses Oliver's physical torment to evoke the reader's sympathy and incite his or her awareness of society's corruption. In doing so, he unearths the problem of evil as an ever-present force that dwells not only within the supernatural underworld of Fagin and Sikes but, ironically, looms in the most unsuspecting places, even in the very institutions established to aid society's poor. In Dickens?s descriptions, the words ?neglect? and ?decay? recur insistently. He uses irony, sarcasm and biting language. Interestingly, he doesn't suggest any solutions; he merely points out the suffering inflicted by these systems and their deep injustice. Readers, who appreciate a good read, would undoubtedly agree with Oliver's famous plea, "Please sir, I want some more"
