When a rich miser dies, his inheritance is to pass to his estranged son John Harmon, who must return from South Africa to claim it, on condition that he marries a woman he has never met, Miss Bella Wilfer. When John Harmon goes missing and is presumed dead, the fortune passes instead to the miser’s faithful employees Mr. and Mrs. Boffin. Rich with psychological and social insight into the effects of money on society, «Our Mutual Friend», the last novel that Charles Dickens completed is...
В книге представлен блестящий роман классика мировой литературы Чарльза Диккенса «Оливер Твист», в котором впервые в английской литературе главным героем стал ребенок. Произведение дано на языке оригинала. Знакомство с оригиналами творений классиков зарубежной литературы, науки, искусства поможет сегодняшним студентам составить более точное представление о неповторимой стилистике каждого автора, а также расширит словарный запас, знания об истории языка, фразеологии. Неадаптированное издание.
Starved and mistreated, empty bowl in hand, the young hero musters the courage to approach his master, saying, «Please, sir, I want some more.» Oliver Twist's famous cry of the heart has resounded with readers since the novel's initial appearance in 1837, and the book remains a popular favorite with fans of all ages.Dickens was no stranger to the pain of hunger and the degradation of poverty. He poured his own youthful experience of Victorian London's unspeakable squalor into this...
Mit 24 Original Zeichnungen von George Cruikshank Dies ist die Geschichte des Findelkindes und Waisenjungen Oliver Twist, der ohne Kenntnisse über seine Herkunft im Armenhaus einer englischen Kleinstadt aufwächst. Als dem Jungen eine Anstellung beim ansässigen Sargtischler vermittelt wird, kann er den katastrophalen Zuständen im Waisenhaus entfliehen. Bald darauf flieht er nach einer Prügelei mit einem anderen Lehrling nach London. In London angekommen gerät er in die Fänge des Hehlers...
A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Richard Rogers. London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends – Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out...
