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Oliver Twist and the London Poor
Oxford University Press
February 2012
On Sale: February 1, 2012
240 pages
ISBN: 0199645884
EAN: 9780199645886
Kindle: B007CJBXXU
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Non-Fiction
It's one of the best known scenes in all of
literature--young Oliver Twist, with empty bowl in hand,
asking "Please Sir. I want some more." In Dickens and
the Workhouse, historian Ruth Richardson recounts how
she discovered the building that was quite possibly the
model for the workhouse in Dickens' classic novel. Indeed,
Richardson reveals that Dickens himself lived only a few
doors down from this notorious building--once as a child and
once again as a young journalist. This book offers a colorful portrait of London in Dickens'
time, looking at life in the streets and in the workhouse
itself. Illustrated with maps, documents, photos, and
illustrations, this fascinating book provides an engaging
blend of history, biography and literary criticism, rooted
in hitherto largely unexplored historical sources, in
Dickens' own fiction and journalism, and in works of
biography and criticism. Richardson's discovery made headlines worldwide. Published
on the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth, Dickens and
the Workhouse offers an intriguing glimpse of one of
the great literary figures of the Victorian Age.
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