Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens (Vintage Collector's Classics)

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens (Vintage Collector's Classics)New Hardback A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's unforgettable novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. Dickens graphically conjures up the capitals

What was it like to grow up in England under the Tudors

like a web of rootlike mycelium

While offering extraordinary opportunities

Caithleen is a romantic: she dreams of finding a handsome man who will sweep her away and look after her

But when a Klatchian Prince is almost assassinated

and that adventure has been bought by banks and big business

poems help to establish character and place as well as further the story

Zoe finds herself navigating an unfamiliar landscape

Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges

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These are the Greek myths as you’ve never heard them before

enthusiasms and tragicomedies