Charles Dickens "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" This book
Oliver talks about a fatherless boy, who was raised in the hospice of the parish, until he makes the 'big' failure to ask for another portion of the 'baby food' for lunch that was given to all orphans. Oliver is then sent to work as a mortician, but falsely accused and mistreated, and runs away to London. There he will join a gang of thieves (composed mostly by boys), even if he does not know what they are. At first theft he attends his new friends, leaving distraught, runs away and is helped by a gentleman, who would almost have been adopted. But the robbers kidnapped him and forced him to make a shot with them. Injured as detected by servant of the house, Oliver is still accepted by the master of it, and from there manages to be genuinely happy for the first time in his life. But the gang of thieves and then search for Oliver, with the ladies and gentleman, they manage to pull it out of trouble, bringing to justice its enemies and also discovered his identity.
Dickens was very good because it is well managed to weave the lives of his characters, so it does not reveal anything to the reader as he describes the character in question. The book is also a complaint of child exploitation time of Dickens (the first half of the nineteenth century) in England: children forced to work, or even steal and treated like animals. The book is written very well and is smooth and the author makes little too much in the descriptions of places or people. It is a book that I recommend to read at all, because it is very beautiful and it shows through the eyes of a child, how to be alone in an unfamiliar place can be very difficult and we cling to the first lifeline.
The book I liked a lot, even if it is a bit 'long reads very quickly. The thing I liked about this book is that Dickens has compared the unfortunates who were forced to steal, and the noble class, which can be devoted to the study and music. One piece that struck me is when you really are very to cross these two social classes, the gentleman who wants to help a thief to leave the life he is doing, while she does not want to know, because it is too tied to it.
"" No, I can not, sir, "replied Nancy in fact, after a brief struggle. "I'm chained to a life time. The hatred and contempt, by now, but I can not give it up. I must have gone too far to turn back ... ""
Oscar Mondadori, the first edition in 1996
€ 8.40
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