Oliver Twist (Large Print, Annotated) - Charles Dickens

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Read about the cruelty of the industrial age The definitive editionFeatures an extended biography of the life and experiences of Charles Dickens Large Print edition Oliver Twist is a young boy down on his luck. This young orphan runs away to London and soon joins a gang of young pickpockets under the command of Fagin, a professional thief. Then, we follow his thrilling adventures and the heart-wrenching tale of his misfortune and how he tries to get ahead in life despite the horrifying conditions that the early 19th-century imposed on children, especially those that were orphans: extreme poverty, hunger, child labor, and abuse.Please, sir, I want some more. Accompany young Twist as he tries to overcome his fate. He does his best to survive despite the difficult situation he was born in. Will he end up becoming an honest member of society or will his misdemeanors end up landing him in jail? Discover it by yourself and you will soon realize why this book is considered a classic. It is one of Charles Dickens's most well known and loved tales! Get your copy of this classic today!

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, England. His parents were middle-class and suffered financially. When Dickens was twelve years old, his family faced financial crisis, which forced him to quit school and work in a shoe polish manufacturing factory. Dickens's mother and siblings eventually joined him. Dickens continued to work at the factory for several months. In the factory the horrific conditions haunted him throughout his life. Dickens never forgot the day when a senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens how to do his work more efficiently. As a young adult, Dickens worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist. He perceived the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution. A collection of semi-fictional sketches entitled Sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer. Dickens began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers in 1836. The Pickwick Papers was hugely popular and Dickens became a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Dickens's themes included wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. In 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, but after twenty years of marriage and their ten children, he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress many years his junior. Soon after, Dickens and his wife separated. Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life, and his novels - Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Bleak House - continued to earn critical and popular acclaim. He died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of 58....