Title : The Adventures of Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - book

Summary :

When his mother dies in childbirth, little Olivier is entrusted to the workhouse where, under the guise of philanthropy, he is exploited and starved. Driven out of the institution for asking for a second bowl of gruel, the unfortunate orphan experiences the misfortunes of virtue and the initiations into vice, which will plunge him into the criminal underworld of a London of bad dreams. It is in this disturbing cesspool, discovered at child's height, that Olivier makes his initiatory journey alongside brigands and thieves. A sharp social critique of the exploitation of the working classes and the hypocrisy of institutions, The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1838) is also a formidable novelistic machine that mixes the sentimental English tale with the Gothic heritage, renewed by the humor of Dickens and the lively rhythm of the serial.

• EAN : 9782070363865
  
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