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01 septembre 2021
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9781783222520
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Date de parution
01 septembre 2021
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9781783222520
Langue
English
Original by Charles Dickens Retold by Pauline Francis
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First published in this edition in 2013
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Chapter One Hungry!
Chapter Two Fagin takes Oliver in
Chapter Three Kidnapped
Chapter Four An evil plan
Chapter Five The robbery
Chapter Six Faces at the window
Chapter Seven The locket and the ring
Chapter Eight A secret conversation
Chapter Nine Nancy pays the price
Chapter Ten The truth at last
Introduction
Charles Dickens was born in 1812, the second of eight children. When he was twelve years old, his father went to prison because he owed money. Charles went out to work to help his family. He never forgot this terrible time when he was poor, and later used his experiences in some of his stories.
In his twenties, Charles found work writing about London life for newspapers and magazines. Some of these articles were published as a book called Pickwick Papers. This is how Charles Dickens became famous at the age of twenty-four.
A year later, Charles began to write the story of Oliver Twist as a monthly magazine serial. It was published as a book in 1838. Oliver Twist tells the story of a poor orphan, Oliver, who survives starvation and life with the evil Fagin. Fagin, by training Oliver to be a pickpocket, does his best to destroy the young boy’s childish innocence.
Charles Dickens wrote many more famous novels, including Nicholas Nickleby , David Copperfield , A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations . He died in 1870 at the age of fifty-eight and is buried in Westminster Abbey, London.
CHAPTER ONE
Hungry!
In the workhouse of a small town north of London, a pale young woman raised her head feebly from her pillow. She touched a locket around her neck, then the ring on her finger. “Give these to the child,” she said to the nurse by her bed.
“I will, my dear,” the old woman replied.
The nurse placed the newborn baby into its mother’s arms. The young woman kissed its forehead with her cold white lips, shuddered – and died.
“Where did she come from?” the doctor asked.
“Nobody knows,” the nurse said.
Oliver cried loudly. And if he had known that he was an orphan, he would probably have cried even louder...
After his birth, Oliver was sent to an orphanage where he had to live on the smallest amount of food possible. There he grew into a pale, thin child. On his ninth birthday, Mr Bumble, who looked after the orphans for the parish church, came to see him.
“Oliver is too old to stay here,” he told the old woman who ran the orphanage. “It’s time he went to live in the workhouse where he will be taught a useful trade. Then he can earn his keep. Let me see him at once.”
Mr Bumble had to wait a long time. He did not know that Oliver was spending his birthday in the coal-cellar. Why? He had dared to complain that he was hungry!
“Will you come with me, Oliver?” Mr Bumble asked gently when the boy came into the room.
Oliver, hearing the kindness in the man’s voice, took his chance. He began to cry. “I am hungry,” he wept. “Bring him some bread!” Mr Bumble ordered.
