Name: Oliver Twist
Rating: 3.630790190735695 (367 reviews)

Charles Dickens

Lesley Baxter

An adaption of Dickens's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.

Oliver Twist

Am Anfang habe ich mich gesträubt, das Buch zu lesen, weil ich dachte, es wäre langweilig. Doch als ich angefangen habe, wurde es immer spannender. Es geht um die Geschichte von Oliver Twist, der als Waise aufwuchs, wie er behandelt wurde und wie sein Leben sich über die Jahre entwickelte.

Man lernt viele verschiedene Charaktere kennen und bekommt auch ihre Perspektiven mit, es geht nicht nur um Olivers Sicht.

Insgesamt war es ein spannendes und gutes Buch, mal etwas anderes. Für mich ist es eher ein Herbst Winterbuch. Ich habe es wirklich genossen, ein must Read Klassiker ✨

Asmae

Am Anfang habe ich mich gesträubt, das Buch zu lesen, weil ich dachte, es wäre langweilig. Doch als ich angefangen habe, wurde es immer spannender. Es geht um die Geschichte von Oliver Twist, der als Waise aufwuchs, wie er behandelt wurde und wie sein Leben sich über die Jahre entwickelte.

Man lernt viele verschiedene Charaktere kennen und bekommt auch ihre Perspektiven mit, es geht nicht nur um Olivers Sicht.

Insgesamt war es ein spannendes und gutes Buch, mal etwas anderes. Für mich ist es eher ein Herbst Winterbuch. Ich habe es wirklich genossen, ein must Read Klassiker ✨

Macy Johnson

This book is a classic which was the main reason I read it. It's ok like the story is good but a bit boring. It ended on a cliff hanger I don't think I'm gonna read the other volumes

Hana 

Jordan Bowman

This is a good book, but you can tell it's one of Dickens' first novels. The distinctive elements he usually employs are more weak or plainly missing. On the whole I liked it, but not as much as a couple other Dickens works.

Todd Luallen

Classics always provide a bit of a challenge. The language is typically more foreign and therefore difficult to grasp (especially when listening to the audio book). And the fact that so many have read the book before hand and loved it, raises the bar to an almost impossible level to overcome. And yet, I still find myself reading a classic here and there, partly because I want to level up my book snobbery, and partly because I feel like the last person to see Star Wars. Such was the situation upon reading Ollie T - (his rapper name). I thoroughly enjoyed it. A great story with phenomenal characters. I'm sure I'm revisiting this topic, but Dickens creates characters that jump off the page (it doesn't hurt that Simon Vance is narrating either). Well done Chuck!

Callie Anna

Very well-written. There are a lot of characters, but if you keep reading, they'll straighten out. The book is extrememly sad and depressing if looked at just as a story. If you look for what Dicken's was trying to say, you will see how funny and sarcastic it is! I won't be reading it again soon, but I bet I will in the future!

Oliver Twist, or, the Parish Boy's Progress

Trever

This is one of those books I wish I'd read in hardcover instead of mass-market paperback. The tiny font and thin pages made it really boring to read the words, so I glazed over lots of paragraphs.

Nancy Holder

Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress

Liv Rockwell

My first Dickens, and rather disappointing after Tolstoy's "War and Peace". 

I heard that Dickens is a good read for people fascinated by socio-economic matters. Thus, I'd made the assumption I would love Dickens. Another point in his favor is the fact that so many people talk about his great work. 

This book focuses on a boy born in unfortunate circumstances, which lead to a fairly miserable childhood until the end of the book when his situation is redeemed. While there are many fascinating themes worth discussing, Dickens' writing style always made me feel too aloof from the characters to feel any real pain/ or redemption when events occurred. By the end, I just sped through it to get this book completed. 

If you like Dickens' aloof writing style, or if you are a hardcore Classics fan, this is worth your time. I cannot honestly say it was worth mine.

Jeremy Anderberg

Most people know the broad theme of the story, which is an orphan boy who ends up on the mean streets of London. And that's really the gist of it. Poor Oliver gets tossed around by the system, and finds his way into an unsavory crew of pickpockets and thieves. The book is the story of how he finds his way out, which is quite a roller coaster ride for readers.

It's indeed dark at times, but Dickens writes "I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil." Among the unsavory characters and sometimes depressing scenes, young Dickens (he was just 25 when he started this novel) also paints a picture of what deep human sympathy and a sense of warmth and security can do to one's soul. Yes, there's the evil Fagin and Sikes, but there's also the absolute rays of light that are Mr Brownlow and Rose Maylie. Dickens' deft ability to combine satire, wit, deep emotion, and engaging plot is unmatched in literature.

While the story is approaching 200 years old, I don't want to give too much away for those who haven't read it. Dickens can throw in a crazy plot twist with the best of 'em.

Ultimately, this is a novel about good and evil, about the innocence of children, about what society can do to a man who's down on his luck, and about love, redemption, and belonging.

Oliver Twist is, in a word, marvelous. An utter triumph. I've only read three of Dickens' works, but I can't wait to get into the next one. I can't get enough of the guy.

Emma Tickner

Emily

2.5 stars, read for school, it was alright

Oliver Twist (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Hope Brockway

Oliver Twist is one of my favorite classics of all time. 

I have no idea why I'm so obsessed with this little orphan who asks for more, but I am. I've watched all the movie and TV versions of this story I can get my hands on, and I still feel the pull to read this book again. I always laugh at the same jokes, cry at the same scenes, and gape at the pages of descriptions. (This is a classic after all.) 

I read this book for the first time in seventh grade. (Yeah, I'm a nerd like that.) I read the kid's version with a picture on every page and the ginormous font size, but I devoured it. I loved the story of this scrawny kid who, somehow, survived the many robberies, kidnappings, and jail sentences thrown his way. 

This is the book that gave me a love of classic literature, and I will never forget that. To this day, Oliver is one of my favorite characters and you can still hear me humming some of the songs from the musical around the house.

The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none' Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, Oliver Twist features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous gangmaster Fagin, the menacing thug Bill Sikes, the Artful Dodger and their den of thieves in the grimy London backstreets. Dicken's novel is both an angry indictment of poverty, and an adventure filled with an air of threat and pervasive evil. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

*emmie*

Jolie

Ana Jankovic

The book I am particularly attached to, emotionally and by memory. It is really a piece of work worth reading. Sad plot and fates of the characters, poverty and gloomy background throughout the novel seem to give it a special place in today's literature. It reminds us how life can be cruel, unjust, but also how it is possible to stay innocent and kind-hearted like Oliver, even after everything he's been through.
We have absolutely nothing to worry and complain about...

Sonia Flores

Oliver Twist. Qué decir de este niño. Qué decir de este libro.
Vamos a ver, encontré esa historia bastante desesperante. Con esto, Dickens nos mostró el otro lado de la moneda. No la parte bonita, elegante y soberbia de la época, no, sino los sufrimientos de quienes no poseen ciertos beneficios. Nos mostró la parte más baja de la sociedad, no solo por sus carentes privilegios, más bien nos dejó ver a aquellos quienes, teniendo algunos, pueden comportarse como verdadera escoria. Nos demuestra una vez más lo que ya muchos sabemos, que la humildad no se mide según lo que se posee en este mundo.
Nos cuenta la historia de un muchacho que es víctima de un montón de injusticias y sufre desde su nacimiento, aunque volviéndose cada vez más consciente de sus infortunios. Es inocencia mezclada con corrupción, y la maldad queriendo consumir la bondad de quienes han sabido diferenciarlas. Es muchas cosas, es todo, y creo que la razón por la que le doy esta calificación no es porque se trate de un clásico o se trate de Dickens, sino por lo que la obra representa. A falta de palabras, diré que es un libro que todos deben leer.

Oliver Twist

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