Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
b'This is an audiobook of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, narrated by Peter John Keeble.
There\\u2019s few lines in literature as famous as \\u201cPleasure sir, may I have some more?\\u201d But if there\\u2019s one thing Charles Dickens knows, it\\u2019s how to write a novel that, almost two centuries after its publication, is still going strong and being adapted. Oliver Twist (full title: Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy\\u2019s Progress) tells the story of a young orphan, Oliver, who has some not-so-good luck. He\\u2019s taken in by several cruel \\u201cbenefactors\\u201d, shuffled around and getting lost, until he finally lands at a place he might call him. At heart, though, he\\u2019s a kind boy who doesn\\u2019t wish to do ill. It\\u2019s all well and good, then, that he gets a happy ending.
Still, he did reach happily ever after easily. Dickens explores what the life of a young outcast was like in the early-1800s, illustrating the practice of child labor at a time where workers rights weren\\u2019t exactly the talk of the town. Poverty & social class are both major themes in the book. The highly stratified nature of pre-Victorian and Victorian times led to a divisive class structure that wasn\\u2019t easily traversed. While it was a time of rapid expansion and industrialization, it also meant that the least fortunate and able were left by the wayside, or worse. As in most cases, the well off were few and far between; most had to subsist or scrounge to stay alive. This, in turn, led to crime \\u2013 another important theme. A naive Oliver is roped into schemes where, after they fail, he is left as a patsy.
Title: Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens
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I cleaned up the recording as follows:
Removed the introduction of the narrator.
Removed the LibriVox introduction.
Shorted or removed long silences.
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