Oliver Twist [sound recording] / Charles Dickens.
Material type:
SoundSeries: Cover to cover (BBC Audiobooks)Publication details: Bath : BBC Audiobooks ; North Kingstown, RI : BBC Audiobooks America, p2010.Description: 14 sound discs (16 hr., 20 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 companion eBookISBN: - 1602838763
- 9781602838765
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Audiobook
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Main Library | Audiobook | FICTION Dickens Cha | Available | 33111006604363 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
One of Dickens' most popular novels, Oliver Twist tells the story of a young workhouse orphan who escapes into the mean backstreets of Victorian London. There, he is thrust into a den of thieves where some of Dickens' 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. A novel with autobiographical overtones, this was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray 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' belief in the principle of good triumphing at last.
Compact discs.
Duration: 16:20:00.
Title from container.
Unabridged.
Read by Martin Jarvis.
Story of a workhouse orphan who is captured and thrust into a den of thieves and villains, but comes at last to his rightful heritage.