Product Description

Set in London’s seedy 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. 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. 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. Writing it shortly after the government halted payments to the poor unless they entered workhouses, he used the tale of young Oliver as his vehicle for social criticism.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5380805 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 12
• Binding: Audio Cassette

Customer Reviews

Very Well Done
I am a language arts teacher and my 8th grade class listened to this fine audio CD as we read along. The narration is excellent. My only warning concerning the book and audio CD is that one of the characters, Charles Bates, is regularly referred to as "Master Bates", which teenagers find hilarious.