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Oliver Twist - (Campfire Classics) by Charles Dickens (Paperback)

Oliver Twist - (Campfire Classics) by  Charles Dickens (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Oliver Twist's life has been a hard and desperate one. With his mother dying during his birth, and having no idea who his father was, Oliver has spent his first nine years struggling to survive in a world that has little pity for a poor orphan<br>such as him.<br>After Oliver gets involved with the nefarious Fagin and the sinister Bill Sikes, he is wounded during a burglary. Oliver is rescued by Sikes's intended victims, the young Rose Maylie, and her guardian, Mrs Maylie. At last, the boy finds a loving<br>home and people who care for him.<br>But how long will Oliver's happiness endure, especially when Fagin begins to conspire with a mysterious stranger with a link to the boy's past?<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>It is no small task to condense one of Dickens's most beloved and frequently retold stories from 400 pages into a mere 88 while maintaining the major plot developments. However, remarkably, this graphic novel version is generally a success. . . . Owing to the minor violence and complexity of Dickens's plot twists, this would be suitable for middle school students who like darker stories; think A Series of Unfortunate Events for older readers. <b>--<i> Library Journal<br></i><br></b>I <b><i>highly recommend</i></b> Campfire's comics. They do what they are intended to do and do it in a way that excites kids about classic literature. <b>-- Chris Wilson, The Graphic Classroom</b> (a resource for teachers and librarians)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth. <i>The Christmas Books</i> was first published in a single volume in 1852, bringing together five stories, which Charles Dickens had written especially for the Christmas season, beginning in 1843 with <i>A Christmas Carol.</i> Over the next three years, Dickens published <i>The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, </i> and <i>The Battle of Life</i>. There was no story in 1847 but a fifth, <i>The Haunted Man</i>, appeared in 1848.

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