Name: Oliver Twist (Collins Classroom Classics)
SKU: 4587843
Price: 296.00 TWD
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Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780008400439

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Oliver Twist (Collins Classroom Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

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Publisher

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

592

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.8x10.7x3.8 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN

9780008400439

ISBN13

9780008400439

Synopsis "Oliver Twist (Collins Classroom Classics) "

This edition of Oliver Twist provides depth and context for A Level students, with the complete novel in an easy to read format, and a detailed introduction and bespoke glossary written by an experienced A Level teacher with academic expertise in the area. - Affordable high quality complete text of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist - Perfectly pitched introductions provide the depth and demand required by AS and A Level English - Explore the contemporary context, Charles Dickens' writing, the novel's critical reception and subsequent interpretations for a deeper reading of the text - Expand your further reading with a list of key articles and critical and theoretical texts - Improve your understanding of the novel with unfamiliar concepts and culturally-specific terms defined in the glossary

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was born in Portsmouth and was the eldest son of a Royal Navy clerk. At twelve, his father's imprisonment for debt forced him to work in a blacking factory. His education was sporadic: he taught himself shorthand, worked as a clerk in a law office, and eventually became a parliamentary correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.

Coming from a humble family, "good old Charles" did not receive formal education until he was nine, and was heavily criticized by the critics of the time for being too self-taught. His life took an unexpected turn with his father's imprisonment for debts, moving his family to live with him in jail, allowed at that time by British laws. At the age of 12, he was already considered fit to start working in a dye factory. Although his family's situation had improved, his mother insisted he keep working there, inspiring him to write one of his masterpieces, David Copperfield.

His articles, later collected in Scenes from London Life by "Boz" (1836-1837), were very successful, and with the appearance in 1837 of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens became a true publishing phenomenon. Novels such as Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), and Barnaby Rudge (1841) gained enormous popularity, as did some travel chronicles, such as Pictures from Italy (1846). With Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he began his mature period, of which good examples are David Copperfield (1849-1850), his first novel in the first person and his favorite, in which he developed some autobiographical episodes; Bleak House (1852-1853); Little Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). He died at Gad's Hill, his country house in Higham, in the county of Kent.

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