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Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist London Poor

Current price: $33.99
Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist London Poor
Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist London Poor

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Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist London Poor

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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,
offers an intriguing glimpse of one of the great literary figures of the Victorian Age.

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