Oliver Twist & Me
Oliver Twist & Me
The True Story of Charles Dickens's best-loved novel
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Sign in or Sign up!- Release Date: 04/09/2025
- Barcode: 9780349136387
- Genre: Non-Fiction
- Sub-Genre: History
- Imprint: Little, Brown
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Oliver Twist & Me
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The True Story of Charles Dickens's best-loved novel
A dual biography of Charles Dickens and orphan boy Robert Blincoe, the orphan boy whose story Dickens used for Oliver Twist-by Robert's descendant novelist Nicholas Blincoe.
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE**
"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.
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