| ISBN |
9780241430958 (paperback) |
| Name |
Williams, Kate author. |
| Title |
Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens ; retold by Kate Williams ; illustrated by George Cruikshank. |
| Edition |
Penguin Readers edition. |
| Published |
London : Penguin Books, 2020. |
| ©2020 |
| Description |
112 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Summary |
Oliver Twist's parents are dead and he grows up in the workhouse, where life is very hard. One day Oliver runs away to London. There, he enters a life of crime with the old man Fagin, the Artful Dodger, frightening Bill Sykes and kind-hearted Nancy. How will Oliver live in this dangerous world? Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language. Level 6 Readers, are B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text. |
| Target audience note |
13+ years. |
| Subjects |
Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870. -- Oliver Twist -- Adaptations |
| Orphans -- Juvenile fiction |
| Criminals -- Juvenile fiction |
| Young adult fiction |
| Readers (Adult) |
| London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction |
| Genre |
Readers (Publications) |
| Easy to read (blue : advanced) |
| Other Names |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Oliver Twist Adaptation of (work): |
| Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 illustrator. |
| Series |
Penguin readers Level 6. |
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