![]() ![]() Given that I also have ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ and ‘Great Expectations’ gathering dust on my bookshelves, I think audio versions of these two will soon be on my listening agenda. The lovely Martin Jarvis brings the text to life with a marvellous variety of voices and accents, and even succeeds in making those passages where Dickens goes off on a tangent about life in general appealing to the listener. He is soon captured into the service of Fagin and his gang of pick-pocketing boys. Finding the weighty tome available as an audiobook, I jumped at the chance to listen rather than read. Oliver Twist (version 6) Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) 'Please sir, I want some more,' the famous line spoken by Oliver Twist at age nine, becomes the tipping point of a huge change in Oliver's life. I’ve had ‘Oliver Twist’ on my bookshelf for about thirty years but have never managed to get past the first chapter. It turns out that the many film and TV versions rarely do justice to the full story as the author intended, so the second half of the story is often left out. Everyone knows the basic plot of this classic tale, but I was surprised to learn how much of it was new to me. ![]() ![]() Oliver Twist or, The Parish Boys Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. ![]() Brought up in the workhouse, orphan Oliver escapes to London and finds himself caught in Fagin’s criminal underworld. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Publication date Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics librivox, literature, audiobook, fiction, literature LibriVox recording of Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens. ![]()
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