Oliver Twist, Sohn unbekannter Eltern, wächst im Armenhaus einer Kleinstadt unter dem harten Regiment des selbstgefälligen Mr. Bumble auf. Er kommt zu einem Leichenbestatter in die Lehre, flieht ohne einen Pfennig nach London und gerät in die Fänge des Hehlers Fagin, der eine Bande jugendlicher Taschendiebe anführt. Und es gibt jemanden, der ein ganz spezielles Interesse daran hat, Oliver in Verbrechen zu verwickeln.
Portrays the adventures of poor orphan Oliver Twist in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London.
Oliver Twist Was An Entirely New Kind Of Novel In Early Victorian England Which Exposed The Contemporary Cruelties Of The Industrial Revolution And The Poor Law Of 1834.
The novel contains some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself who dares to ask for more, the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolicat Fagin, Bill Sikes, Nancy and...
This 80-page adaptation has been painstakingly edited to retain the integrity of the original work, and to convey a sense of the author's style and the novel's theme.
Oliver Twist, is a novel by English author Charles Dickens. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker.
On his eighth birthday he is taken to the workhouse, and now his troubles are really about to begin. Find out what happens to Oliver in this vivid graphic novel retelling of Charles Dickens' literary classic.
An adaptation of the Charles Dickens story in which Oliver, an orphan, escapes the workhouse and flees to London where he falls in with a gang of thieves.
He faces many obstacles and lives through many horrors throughout the novel. The cruelty of institutions and bureaucracies towards the unfortunate is perhaps the pre-eminent theme of the book, and essentially what makes it a social novel.
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