Oliver Twist
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Oliver Twist
AUTHOR:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Nix, Garth.
ISBN:
9780141322438
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Puffin, 1994.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
vi, 391 p. ; 18 cm
SERIES:
Puffin classics
Puffin classics.
SERIES_TITLE:
Puffin classics
Puffin classics.
ABSTRACT:
After orphan Oliver Twist asks for more food, he has to flee the workhouse and ends up on the streets of London. There 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 of the young orphan, determined to drag him back.
SUBJECT:
| Orphans -- England -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Kidnapping victims -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Pickpockets -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Criminals -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Bildungsromans. |
| English fiction -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature. |
| England -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction. |
| London (England) -- Juvenile fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
After orphan Oliver Twist asks for more food, he has to flee the workhouse and ends up on the streets of London. There 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 of the young orphan, determined to drag him back.