Charles Dickens' classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London. After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets. When a thieving mission goes wrong, Oliver narrowly avoids prison and finds himself in the care of kind Mr Brownlow. But Fagin and the brutal Bill Sikes go in search...

En una época llena de moralismos y reglas, con prejuicios exagerados, prohibiciones severas y valores «puritanos», donde los formalismos religiosos eran deberes incuestionables, surge una obra que cae como balde de agua fría sobre el orgulloso Imperio británico. En forma de sátira y crítica frontal a las instituciones que operaban como una industria del hambre, de la mortandad, del suplicio y del abuso descarado envuelto en la hipocresía,...

Luck does not smile on little Oliver Twist. Having been, orphaned as soon as he was born, he was raised in a nursing home without receiving any affection. At the age of nine, he already knows what it's like to starve, suffer abuse and work from sunrise to sunset in a factory. He decides, therefore, to flee to London, looking for a little easier life. The big city, however, is fraught with danger and delinquency. In another of his unforgettable works,...

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Der arme und gutgläubige Waisenjunge Oliver Twist gerät in die Fänge einer Diebesbande. Deren Anführer, der diabolische Fagin, hat große Pläne mit Oliver - er soll ein Meisterdieb und Einbrecher werden... Der Norddeutsche Rundfunk produzierte 1961 das Hörspiel zu Charles Dickens' gesellschafts-kritischem Klassiker. Schauspielgrößen wie Joseph von Offenbach, Richard Münch,Volker Lechtenbrink oder Helmut Peine machten daraus ein von vielen...

Tells the story of a poor orphan's adventures in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London.

Orphans make riveting main characters. We love to get behind an orphan's nail biting journey as they face seemingly insurmountable horrors in a dark world. Think of Harry Potter, Huckleberry Finn and Mowgli or even Annie's hard knock life for example. Where did this literary trope that draws at our heart strings so strongly come from? Oliver Twist was one of the first literary orphans in history and was majorly instrumental in catapulting the orphan...

ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura la conocida novela Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens, un clásico de la literatura británica leído en todo el mundo. La obra narra las aventuras de Oliver Twist, un niño huérfano y maltratado en su infancia que, lleno de inocencia, acaba formando parte de un grupo de jóvenes ladrones londinenses para sobrevivir en una sociedad hostil y azotada por la pobreza. ¡Ya no tienes que leer...

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Orphans. Thieves. Murder. And an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet! When Ivy Meadows lands a gig with the book-themed cruise line Get Lit!, she thinks she's died and gone to Broadway. Not only has she snagged a starring role in a musical production of Oliver Twist, she's making bank helping her PI uncle investigate a string of onboard thefts, all while sailing to Hawaii on the S.S. David Copperfield. But Ivy is cruising for disaster. Her acting contract somehow...