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portada Oliver Twist (in Spanish)
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Collection
clasica maior
Year
2004
Language
Spanish
Pages
512
Format
Hardcover
Weight
9.49
ISBN
8484282430
ISBN13
9788484282433
Edited in
España
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Oliver Twist (in Spanish)

Charles Dickens (Author) · Alba · Hardcover

Oliver Twist (in Spanish) - Charles Dickens

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Synopsis "Oliver Twist (in Spanish)"

Oliver Twist, publicada por entregas en 1837, consolidó la fama de Charles Dickens y es, sin duda, una de las novelas más perdurables de su genio. Con ella se proponía demostrar que se podía «servir a la moral» mediante una historia con «personajes elegidos entre lo más criminal y degradado de la población de Londres», y donde sin embargo sobrevivieran la candidez y la fragilidad. La historia del pequeño Oliver, criado en un hospicio, empleado y maltratado en una funeraria, que al escapar rumbo a Londres es reclutado por una banda de ladrones que él no reconoce como tales, no sólo es un soberbio escaparate de celebérrimas creaciones dickensianas (Fagin, el jefe de la banda de delincuentes juveniles, el ladronzuelo Jack Dawkins, el asesino Sikes, la prostituta Nancy, el misterioso Monks, implacable perseguidor de Oliver), sino un magnífico y trepidante relato sobre la inocencia acosada. Los distintos protectores que el héroe va encontrando en su camino nos descubren al Dickens idílico y sentimental, y gracias a ellos una trama de secretos tan dramáticos como finalmente felices. La posteridad ha convertido en mito las peripecias de este pequeño personaje, y quizá hoy, cuando su fascinación no ha decaído, una nueva lectura, en una nueva traducción, pueda revelarnos por qué.
Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was born in Portsmouth and was the eldest son of a Royal Navy clerk. At twelve, his father's imprisonment for debt forced him to work in a blacking factory. His education was sporadic: he taught himself shorthand, worked as a clerk in a law office, and eventually became a parliamentary correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.

Coming from a humble family, "good old Charles" did not receive formal education until he was nine, and was heavily criticized by the critics of the time for being too self-taught. His life took an unexpected turn with his father's imprisonment for debts, moving his family to live with him in jail, allowed at that time by British laws. At the age of 12, he was already considered fit to start working in a dye factory. Although his family's situation had improved, his mother insisted he keep working there, inspiring him to write one of his masterpieces, David Copperfield.

His articles, later collected in Scenes from London Life by "Boz" (1836-1837), were very successful, and with the appearance in 1837 of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens became a true publishing phenomenon. Novels such as Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), and Barnaby Rudge (1841) gained enormous popularity, as did some travel chronicles, such as Pictures from Italy (1846). With Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he began his mature period, of which good examples are David Copperfield (1849-1850), his first novel in the first person and his favorite, in which he developed some autobiographical episodes; Bleak House (1852-1853); Little Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). He died at Gad's Hill, his country house in Higham, in the county of Kent.
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Anonymous User Wednesday, July 02, 2025
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El libro es maravilloso. La edición es tapa dura, con guarda polvo, la letra es de buen tamaño es una edición muy bien cuidada. Es una novela de aprendizaje y también una novela social que critica las condiciones de vida en la Inglaterra victoriana. Una historia esperanzadora.

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 Alberto Gutierrez Tuesday, October 27, 2020
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Un libro con una variedad de momentos trágicos, angustiantes, esperanzadores y hasta cómicos.

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