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Oliver Twist
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Oliver Twist

Written By : Charles Dickens
Narrated By : Nadia May
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 16 hours
Categories : Classics
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"Decidedly unsentimental in its depiction of poverty and the criminal underworld, especially
in its portrayal of the cruel Bill Sikes."Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

Set in London's backstreet slums, Oliver Twist is the story of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust
into a den of thieves, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger,
the barbarous bully Bill Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, whose knavery threatens to send them all to the gallows.
This was the first of Dickens's works to depict realistically London's impoverished underworld, and to illustrate
his belief that poverty leads to crime. At the heart of the drama, however, is Oliver, the orphan whose unsullied
goodness leads him to salvation and who represents Dickens's belief in the principle of good triumphing at
last.

Charles Dickens (1812 –1870) was born in Landport, Portsea, England, the second of eight children in a family continually plagued by debt. A legacy brought release from the nightmare of debtors' prison and child labor and afforded him two years of formal schooling. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his early writings brought him the amazing success that was to be his for the remainder of his life.

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.

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