Nicholas Blincoe: Oliver Twist & Me, Gebunden
Oliver Twist & Me
- The True Story of Charles Dickens's best-loved novel
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- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group, 09/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780349136387
- Item number:
- 11964436
- Volume:
- 336 Pages
- Weight:
- 558 g
- Format:
- 240 x 156 mm
- Thickness:
- 22 mm
- Release date:
- 4.9.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 17.55* |
Blurb
"Idiosyncratic and entertaining," Sunday Times
"A fascinating family and social history," Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time
"A fascinating dual story," Edel Coffey, The Gloss
We all think we know the tale. As a child, Charles Dickens was forced to work in a mouldering Thames-side blacking factory, an event that scarred him for life and inspired Oliver Twist . Except that's only part of the story.
In reality, Dickens appropriated the stories of foundlings and orphans - including Robert Blincoe, whose memoir supplied the source material for his great novel of childhood. In Oliver Twist & Me , novelist Nicholas Blincoe presents a dual biography of Dickens and his great-great-great-grandfather Robert, showing how the story of an orphan took off in different directions, helping Dickens project himself as an inimitable literary one-off, just as Robert's memoir of a workhouse boy gave a voice to the masses.
By playing off the lives of a working-class hero and a classic author, Oliver Twist & Me reveals Dickens - and his world - as they have never been seen before.
