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    Oliver Twist
    Oliver Twist
    Oliver Twist
    Audiobook17 hours

    Oliver Twist

    Written by Charles Dickens

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial.

    Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to call the public's attention to various contemporary social evils, including the workhouse, child labour and the recruitment of children as criminals. The novel is full of sarcasm and dark humour, even as it treats its serious subject, revealing the hypocrisies of the time.

    It has been the subject of numerous film and television adaptations, and the basis for a highly successful British musical, Oliver!. (Summary from wikipedia)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Author

    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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      Fine narration. It does switch narrators and there are a couple that are annoying but they don’t do many of the chapters. Excellent book! A little boring and slow at the start but it picks up and never stops after two thirds of the way in! He serves his purpose in writing it too because I just can’t stand the the whole trafficking and child labor system in the 1800s in England and I have a way better understanding of it now