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Paul Scofield, one of Britain's most distinguished actors reads Oliver Twist. He won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons, a role he originated on stage.
Dickens' Twist, a pauper's child reared in a workhouse serves an apprenticeship in a loveless home.Continue
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- English Books
- Paperback 496 Pages
- Edition: Reissue
- ISBN-10: 0140430172
- ISBN-13: 9780140430172
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Pub date: Nov 30, 1966
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Leather Bound, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Unbound and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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For me, this is where Dickens hits his all-time low point. I really hated this book. It displays very little of his characteristically superb irony and exquisite writing. The most that can be said for it is that it's easily accessible, but his shameful treatment of the Fagin character and the anti- ... (continue)
For me, this is where Dickens hits his all-time low point. I really hated this book. It displays very little of his characteristically superb irony and exquisite writing. The most that can be said for it is that it's easily accessible, but his shameful treatment of the Fagin character and the anti-semitism embodied therein is severely off-putting. (though Dickens atoned for this later by his fine speech given to the character of the Jewish gentleman in "Our Mutual Friend). Nevertheless, the character of Oliver himself is far from lovable - he's saccharine to point of cloying.
Although OT is a standard of many middle-school English class curricula, it doesn't really display Dickens at his full power. (For a story about a sad-sack orphan you can actually like, try David Copperfield.)
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