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Uma colecção dos grandes clássicos num formato pequeno e acessível. As obras-primas de autores portugueses e estrangeiros ao alcance da juventude.
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(first published 1839)
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Oliver Twist THE BOOK is crap and has NO songs in it, I couldn't believe it. So I googled and get this, it turns out they put those in the movie and Dickens had nothing to do with it! But since they were the best bit of the film, you can understand my horror and bereft sense of disappointment when I finally came to pick up the book.
How could Dickens NOT have thought of having little Oliver sing Where Is Love when chucked into the cellar or Who Will Buy This Loverly Morning when he wakes up in h ...more
How could Dickens NOT have thought of having little Oliver sing Where Is Love when chucked into the cellar or Who Will Buy This Loverly Morning when he wakes up in h ...more
I looooooooved this book. Another Dickens...another favorite. 'Please, sir, I want some more.'
Jane Austen and Charles Dickens have been dueling inside my WOW center for some time in a titanic, see-saw struggle for the title of greatest word-smither/story-crafter in all of English literature. Ms Austen previously caused heart-palpitations and a slew of gasms with Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility which left me spent like a cheap nickel. However, Sir Dickens, being a slick, wily d ...more
In recent years, I have become bewitched by all things gothic, and I was curious to discover to what extent gothic tropes and examplars may have influenced the imagery and structure of Dicken's first serious novel. Specifically, I was interested in how gothic elements might be expressed in "Oliver Twist"'s urban atmosphere. Had Hugo's Paris thieves' guild left its mark upon Fagin and his charges? Had Scott's Highland robbers' caves influenced Dickens' lowlife dens? Were these dirty London street ...more
I swear Dickens named one of his characters Master Bates on purpose.
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”
Welcome to the 19th century! The Industrial Revolution is in full flow. Money is being made, the population is thriving. The working-class is suffering and the Poor Law is in operation. Oliver Twist is born under testing circumstances as his unmarried mother dies in childbirth and his father is nowhere to be found. The Poor Law stated: "..... poor-law authorities should no longer attempt ...more
"Please, sir, I want some more."
918. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Twist travels to London, where he meets "The Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin.
اولیور تویست - چارلز دیکنز (مرکز) ادبیات انگلستان؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش ...more
Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Twist travels to London, where he meets "The Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin.
اولیور تویست - چارلز دیکنز (مرکز) ادبیات انگلستان؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش ...more
Oct 31, 2017
Sean Barrs
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it was ok
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The film is better. There I said it. It has taken me five years to read this book, five whole years.
To me that says a lot. I just could never get into it. Perhaps if I’d not seen the film I would have enjoyed the story more. I may have seen the charmless characters as part of Dickens attack on society and its lack of social justice. Instead I just saw them for what they were: charmless.
There’s just a certain lack of life within these pages. Oliver, the protagonist, is somewhat unlikable himself ...more
To me that says a lot. I just could never get into it. Perhaps if I’d not seen the film I would have enjoyed the story more. I may have seen the charmless characters as part of Dickens attack on society and its lack of social justice. Instead I just saw them for what they were: charmless.
There’s just a certain lack of life within these pages. Oliver, the protagonist, is somewhat unlikable himself ...more
"What's a prostitute?"
A student in the library asked me that, and I was baffled for two reasons. First of all, I thought that teenagers are well-informed nowadays, and I also thought she was reading in a corner, not surfing the internet in the work area (where I imagined she would come across the term). As so often, I was wrong on all accounts, which I realised when I explained that a prostitute is a woman selling her body, and received the reply:
"Ah, you mean a whore, why can't Dickens just ...more
A student in the library asked me that, and I was baffled for two reasons. First of all, I thought that teenagers are well-informed nowadays, and I also thought she was reading in a corner, not surfing the internet in the work area (where I imagined she would come across the term). As so often, I was wrong on all accounts, which I realised when I explained that a prostitute is a woman selling her body, and received the reply:
"Ah, you mean a whore, why can't Dickens just ...more
Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens's best known stories. Characters such as the evil Fagin, with his band of thieves and villains, the Artful Dodger with "all the airs and manners of a man," the house-breaker Sikes and his dog, the conscience-stricken but flawed Nancy, the frail but determined Oliver, and the arrogant and hypocritical beadle Mr Bumble have taken on a life of their own and passed into our culture. Who does not recognise the sentence,
"Please sir, I want some more!" or
"If the l ...more
"Please sir, I want some more!" or
"If the l ...more
I have seen the 1968 academy award winning musical film “Oliver!” so many times that we eventually just bought the DVD.
David Lean’s 1948 film starring Alec Guinness as Fagan and Robert Newton as Bill Sykes is another favorite.
These film adaptations are so ubiquitous and so endearing that it is easy to forget what a rare accomplishment was Dickens original novel. One of Dickens earliest novels and like most was first published as a series of installments, Oliver Twist begins Dickens brilliant c ...more
David Lean’s 1948 film starring Alec Guinness as Fagan and Robert Newton as Bill Sykes is another favorite.
These film adaptations are so ubiquitous and so endearing that it is easy to forget what a rare accomplishment was Dickens original novel. One of Dickens earliest novels and like most was first published as a series of installments, Oliver Twist begins Dickens brilliant c ...more
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I only read Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens once, back in 6th grade when I was about 12 years old. It was one of the classic books I'd received as a Christmas present, and I loved Dickens other children's stories, so I had to read this one. It's much more harsh tho, and might be a little difficult for a 12 year old to take in without having a better picture of the world. It's one of those books nagging at the back of my mind... "Please re-read me. I bet you'll like me a whole l ...more
I only read Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens once, back in 6th grade when I was about 12 years old. It was one of the classic books I'd received as a Christmas present, and I loved Dickens other children's stories, so I had to read this one. It's much more harsh tho, and might be a little difficult for a 12 year old to take in without having a better picture of the world. It's one of those books nagging at the back of my mind... "Please re-read me. I bet you'll like me a whole l ...more
This has been an exercise in exorcism for me.
I have been enjoying reading Dickens lately but I knew that not until I tackled Oliver Twist would I have dealt with, and conquered, the devil.
Images of black and white dreary images in a boxy TV have been projecting in the back of my mind since my childhood. And growing up and becoming an adult cooking garlic did not help. More substances were needed for a cleansing ritual. Oliver Twist continued to inspire horrific fear in me.
Expectedly, the endless ...more
Please sir, may I have less?
Here's my classics wrap up for this one https://youtu.be/O-OVuWbmb7M
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Mar 29, 2015
Hailey (Hailey in Bookland)
rated it
really liked it
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classics
Read for school*
Not one of my absolute favourite classics but overall it was a really enjoyable read! Interested to see what's said about it in my Victorian literature class!
Not one of my absolute favourite classics but overall it was a really enjoyable read! Interested to see what's said about it in my Victorian literature class!
Dickens' famous story of a young orphan's struggle to survive on the streets of London is rightly one of his most remembered.
Two outstanding characters have been contributed to literature - Fagin and Jack Dawkins the Artful Dodger.
Dickens writes Fagin as a puppet master, controlling the orphaned children as pickpockets and the adults like Bill Sikes as thieves. His subterfuge of a penniless pauper with a kindly approach are at odds with the moments he steals gazing at his hidden stash of jewels ...more
Two outstanding characters have been contributed to literature - Fagin and Jack Dawkins the Artful Dodger.
Dickens writes Fagin as a puppet master, controlling the orphaned children as pickpockets and the adults like Bill Sikes as thieves. His subterfuge of a penniless pauper with a kindly approach are at odds with the moments he steals gazing at his hidden stash of jewels ...more
Feb 08, 2020
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rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
“Please, sir, I want some more.”
Oliver Twist is one of those novels in which you can definitely tell, while reading it, that at the time it was published it was a hit. Charles Dickens was giving people what they wanted, back in 1837. You can also tell, by the way it is structured, that it was published in "episodes". There are some classics which, when you read them, feel like they are timeless, that any era can be their era; they feel modern, always - regardless of the time of publication. Oli ...more
Oliver Twist is one of those novels in which you can definitely tell, while reading it, that at the time it was published it was a hit. Charles Dickens was giving people what they wanted, back in 1837. You can also tell, by the way it is structured, that it was published in "episodes". There are some classics which, when you read them, feel like they are timeless, that any era can be their era; they feel modern, always - regardless of the time of publication. Oli ...more
First of all, Oliver Twist is a shitty book. His second, following the comedic Pickwick Papers, it shows Dickens reaching for new territory: exposing the hopelessness and injustice of destitute life in London. But it's maudlin, obvious, predictable, lame. Oliver is such a simpering bitch that it's impossible to give a shit about him. Bad people want to use him; good people want to pamper him; you are bored. Dickens will write great books, but not yet.
Second, Oliver Twist is a hateful book. Dicke ...more
Second, Oliver Twist is a hateful book. Dicke ...more
Oliver Twist could stand on the strength of its colorful characters alone. Dickens used his insightful eye to take in and store away all the images he was seeing in London's poorer neighborhoods back in the days when his own family found themselves in and out of the debtor's prison, always on the verge of utter ruin.
However, the book is more than just interesting characters. It's a wonderfully enthralling tale to boot, seldom slowing down for long stretches. Certainly there is melodrama, but ev ...more
However, the book is more than just interesting characters. It's a wonderfully enthralling tale to boot, seldom slowing down for long stretches. Certainly there is melodrama, but ev ...more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is a wonderful classic fiction novel. The child as a protagonist was something which appealed to me for me to pick up this read, and the narration doesn't disappoint. The journey the character's life takes from its inception till the story ends is mesmerizing. The picture painted of an orphan kid in Victorian-era England is vivid, along with detailed mentions to the status difference among various social classes of the time, and the various atrocities that follow.
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' I hope so,' replied the child.' After I am dead, but not before. I know the doctor must be right, Oliver, because I dream so much of heaven, and Angles, and kind faces that I never see when I am awake. Kiss me,' said the child, climbing up the low gate, and flinging his little arms round Oliver's neck. Good- b'ye, dear! God bless You!"
Whenever I think about Oliver Twist, I don't know why? the only thing, the first thing and the last thing that always involuntarily hit me right there in my hipp ...more
Whenever I think about Oliver Twist, I don't know why? the only thing, the first thing and the last thing that always involuntarily hit me right there in my hipp ...more
I have in my 37 years of life avoided reading Charles Dickens. My reason: after having suffered through trying to read the so-called English literature of his era--think Thomas Harding, Emile Bronte and Mary Shelly--I figured Dickens would be no better. For some reason I can’t now recollect, I decided to give Dickens a try. I chose Oliver Twist. And was immediately hooked. Far from the boring narrative one finds the works of the other English writers I've already mentioned, Dickens has a very pe
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*Read it for school and decided to re-read it because I just loved this book so much!
This book is worth re-reading again and again!
I really love this classic, although it is so miserable and sad.
I promise I will write a review for it after exams.
This book is worth re-reading again and again!
I really love this classic, although it is so miserable and sad.
I promise I will write a review for it after exams.
I had always heard that Oliver Twist was the inspiration for the Manhattan-set 1980's Disney film Oliver & Company, and it has been on my to-read list for years, so I ordered a copy about a month ago. Just for the record, it's nothing like the Disney film (which featured talking animals in the 1980's, so it figures), and it's surprisingly dark in nature, but a powerful classic unveiling the harsh cruelty of life as an unwanted child in a world where to survive, you either need to exploit or be e
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Yes, but what became of Oliver? Let me tell you. He became Oliver Twisted. That’s what. He became Battersea’s premier caulker—that is, someone who seals gaps in drywall with waterproof sealant. But Fagin’s influence seeped into poor Oliver’s caulking duties. Instead of sealant, he would put sea lions, banana skins and discount copies of the musical Oliver! Homeowners would thrash in their beds to the bleating of moribund sea lions. Houses would slip away from their districts into horrible places
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In response to an apparent Victorian pearl-clutching occasion in the years following the release of Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens found it necessary to offer a retort. Here is some of what he wrote in 1867:
Once Upon a time it was held to be a coarse and shocking circumstance, that some of the characters in these pages are chosen from the most criminal and degraded of London's population...
The cold wet shelterless streets of London; the foul and frowsy dens, where vice is closely packed and lack ...more
Once Upon a time it was held to be a coarse and shocking circumstance, that some of the characters in these pages are chosen from the most criminal and degraded of London's population...
The cold wet shelterless streets of London; the foul and frowsy dens, where vice is closely packed and lack ...more
[italiano sotto]
The Hand of the King
At some point, a character perceives the presence of «a stronger hand than chance».
Mr. Brownlow implies it is the hand of God, we may think it is the hand of the author.
Who cares? It is a strong hand.
If you like lighter hands (in plot, characters, style), this is not the book for you. Here we can find: a lot of unlikely encounters in the middle of a big city; a bunch of extreme characters (from angelic girls to ugly and wicked old men); and a frequent display ...more
The Hand of the King
At some point, a character perceives the presence of «a stronger hand than chance».
Mr. Brownlow implies it is the hand of God, we may think it is the hand of the author.
Who cares? It is a strong hand.
If you like lighter hands (in plot, characters, style), this is not the book for you. Here we can find: a lot of unlikely encounters in the middle of a big city; a bunch of extreme characters (from angelic girls to ugly and wicked old men); and a frequent display ...more
As expected of Charles Dickens, he really did a great work of literature that gives us the wisdom about good and evil in this world. And that despite the evilness that exist in this world, there is still goodness in majority.
Astonishing that Dickens wrote this at the same time he was writing my favorite of his, Nicholas Nickleby, which is so much more amusing, but arguably, just as effective as social criticism. After all, NN and its arresting portrait of the redoubtable schoolmaster Mr Squeers put some Northern schools out of business. Far less fashionable to abandon one's child--always an English middle-class prerogative--to Fortune in a distant residential school.
OT is largely humorless, relative to the high sta ...more
OT is largely humorless, relative to the high sta ...more
“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”
“The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, ...more
“The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, ...more
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