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Oliver Twist - Abridged

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Same book, Another review : </span></span><a href="http://heavybookreview.blogspot.in/2013/04/oliver-twist-abridged.html">http://heavybookreview.blogspot.in/2013/04/oliver-twist-abridged.html</a><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Written by Charles Dickens, this book gives you a sensation of loneliness and despair around you, which is due to the writing style of the author. Although the book I have read is the abridged version, it still causes that feeling.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">So, let’s come to the story. A boy born as an orphan was named Oliver Twist, and sent into an orphanage where children died of starvation. He was many times ‘donated’ or ‘adopted’ by others, but still his gloominess remained almost intact. Unable to face the difficulties in his life, he runs away.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">He sets upon travelling to London to lead a better life, and also gets aided by a same aged boy in the way. However, he nearly tumbles into the dark life of Money and Crime, and soon finds that he was to escape. He gets caught by the police, but fortunately adopted by someone. He is taken care off, until the burglars kidnap him. He makes unproductive attempts to escape, and gets shot during his involvement in a robbery.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">He then begs for help, to the same people whom he was forced to rob. He finds help, and soon recovers. He narrates his story and everyone believes it. The search for robbers begins.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I would not like to reveal everything, but am sure that reading this would definitely fluctuate the thoughts of joyfulness and despair among you. This story is embedded with little crime, in which innocent humans and animals get harmed.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Enjoy reading this book which represents the unchivalrous life of Charles Dickens during his childhood. I did not choose to read the unabridged book as it was too long, and required a lot of time, which is absent for me at present.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij58M2YdBcPCD2JHrzYVCbycAQrpFcnVqcFuXd8S9x2CAPDgNcy0ayTMZnsP6jNiY3xeOpA5yUJeuY3Hs8EzUQsSt1PCzEfsDK-RdS2LL6gq8LzJwPvxjW_ZMyhIW2A7Od-fsxErnX7f0/s1600/iver.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij58M2YdBcPCD2JHrzYVCbycAQrpFcnVqcFuXd8S9x2CAPDgNcy0ayTMZnsP6jNiY3xeOpA5yUJeuY3Hs8EzUQsSt1PCzEfsDK-RdS2LL6gq8LzJwPvxjW_ZMyhIW2A7Od-fsxErnX7f0/s1600/iver.jpg" /></a></span></div></div>

Oliver Twist - Abridged

Same book, Another review : http://heavybookreview.blogspot.in/2013/04/oliver-twist-abridged.html Written by Charles Dickens, this book giv...

Oliver Twist-Abridged

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This is a very touching book by Charles Dickens which can tackle one's emotions and also make few, drip tears. A movie was taken from the heart rendering book which  was also very well directed. Oliver, the main character in the book is portrayed as a very innocent boy who has the slightest knowledge of his bad company and surroundings.<br />Oliver is an orphan boy who is  badly treated in his orphanage  from where he is sent to ,once again, a cruel and wicked family where he has to work tirelessly all day long to earn a day's meal. Unable to bear such brutality, the young orphan escapes to the city where he is discovered by a group of notorious thieves. Though these burglars treat Oliver with lots of affection, they teach him to rob rich gentlemen in the process of which he is caught and beaten up.<br />The wealthy complainant seems to pity on the boy and takes him home. But it seems that Oliver is glued to bad fate as the robbers find him and try to make him blurt out if he had betrayed them and spoken out all about their gang to the police.  After that the story ends with a lovely ending which I won't write. I would rather like to recommend the unabridged version as it gives you a taste of old and good literature. Read the book to enjoy a wonderful storyline. The novel's depth will surely please you.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUSaRukJ3AhG-uoqtEY01BWrQDhcbChfDuY9XZET5P34xDiZTaKXowjCblnmAlcsMYPT_Jsl4OpGy3dDnzf1h1rwkB3JZ_5-rnfu2WxUTQ0WeUUTYb-0DDGGzI2dTIHCPz6OApTa5uFWXX/s1600/51CGFL4eNbL._SX220_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUSaRukJ3AhG-uoqtEY01BWrQDhcbChfDuY9XZET5P34xDiZTaKXowjCblnmAlcsMYPT_Jsl4OpGy3dDnzf1h1rwkB3JZ_5-rnfu2WxUTQ0WeUUTYb-0DDGGzI2dTIHCPz6OApTa5uFWXX/s320/51CGFL4eNbL._SX220_.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><br /></div>

Oliver Twist-Abridged

This is a very touching book by Charles Dickens which can tackle one's emotions and also make few, drip tears. A movie was taken from th...

Great Expectations - Abridged

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Another review of a classic Charles Dickens book is here for you all to read and judge. Great expectations is an awesome book including three parts- The years before the great expectations, Life in London with great expectations and The years after the loss of great expectations and the author's favourite child character, Pip. <br />Pip's family name was Philip Pirrip which he could not spell and so decided to name himself with a simpler name, Pip. Poor Pip was an orphan who also lost  his six siblings at a very young age. As one day Pip was playing in his favourite place, the graveyard, a serious, frightful and overwhelming man bypassed his way. Let me address Pip as 'he' from now. He lived with his sister who was twenty years older than he and her husband, the blacksmith.<br />Then, in the story, came another fearful encounter with a frightful man but not the one I had mentioned earlier. The two convicts fought and were caught by the policemen. I wrote about this event as I feel it plays a very important role in the following story which I won't reveal. Mr Havisham, Estella, Orlick, Joe and Biddy are among other characters you'll meet.<br />A one word description of the piece of work- <b>Outstanding.....</b><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjckUpkiBAXfd7uAVTxwT2ZGNU2auioiXsHOJVsuJP1pm-G16jBWjfOvJk9eyBqybg7xsy_vanujutyJ-4BIUO9TAb5IZqDtRl0BJRZTU-CtbcXNKnFZ9UHhZH9GOX4R1trTvZSpxYX9UM9/s1600/great+expectations.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjckUpkiBAXfd7uAVTxwT2ZGNU2auioiXsHOJVsuJP1pm-G16jBWjfOvJk9eyBqybg7xsy_vanujutyJ-4BIUO9TAb5IZqDtRl0BJRZTU-CtbcXNKnFZ9UHhZH9GOX4R1trTvZSpxYX9UM9/s320/great+expectations.jpg" width="189" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">not the same book which I read</td></tr></tbody></table><b>                                     </b></div>

Great Expectations - Abridged

Another review of a classic Charles Dickens book is here for you all to read and judge. Great expectations is an awesome book including thre...

David Copperfield - Unabrided

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">2nd post of the same book on this blog.<br /><br />I love to read classics and so I'm reviewing another classic book which I really adore due to it's evergreen story. Maybe, readers including me are/were a little upsetted by the complicated and old language of the book but surely it does it's work secretly that is to improve your language or literature. Mannier times for the same reason I felt to abandon the book but I did'nt as the story grabbed hold of my mind at the same time.<br />Now, the earlier called, lovely and outstanding content (story):<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqmA9CxmidXLBNUEjKld5jqc8xf0GxdP6Rk45IKvEeaQiZfFMCXH-r3yqeEnj8NqRBl23Shykf_HE6JyFr9E1MkQ2EkETJbmsEJX3zNUeHP7nFV_ARngl1KPqJtWGdcEeSukw3zpbTiHoz/s1600/da+co.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqmA9CxmidXLBNUEjKld5jqc8xf0GxdP6Rk45IKvEeaQiZfFMCXH-r3yqeEnj8NqRBl23Shykf_HE6JyFr9E1MkQ2EkETJbmsEJX3zNUeHP7nFV_ARngl1KPqJtWGdcEeSukw3zpbTiHoz/s320/da+co.jpg" width="205" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">not the book I read</td></tr></tbody></table>David copperfield, a very unfortunate child who loses his father as he opened his eyes into the unknown world and gazed around the new things not knowing the bad news , lived with his sweet mother whom he loved and with a cruel stepfather. David was sent away as a child labour in a factory. Unable to cope up with his work, David runs away to his aunt who educates him. In the mind-boggling story he meets many good friends, Traddles, Mr. Micawber and there is good old Peggotty, Mr. Wickfield, lovely Dora (David's lifepartner who dies) and for the highlight of the sweet ending Agnes. What are you waiting for? Borrow or buy the book and read it right away!</div>

David Copperfield - Unabrided

2nd post of the same book on this blog. I love to read classics and so I'm reviewing another classic book which I really adore due to it...

David Copperfield - Retold

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The writer, Charles Dickens led a very cruel childhood, which he expressed in the form of novels. His father was arrested for debt., and he was forced to work in a factory. His money became the main income of the family, but he was treated very cruelly as a child labourer. This novel deals with troubles and misery of a young man, as Dickens was.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiavKEbeYxNDvABLWdy21_7sEKb5XVPH_rXrLRP0vgmc1UbGC-2l7divLHjjelChELh7P6wJjxCYmz7kcY0acLnmR0cp6ANmor39EigZAlwMqDg_P3iHIfJo70Hsr8McQWZkKpURyDd-BY/s1600/dc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiavKEbeYxNDvABLWdy21_7sEKb5XVPH_rXrLRP0vgmc1UbGC-2l7divLHjjelChELh7P6wJjxCYmz7kcY0acLnmR0cp6ANmor39EigZAlwMqDg_P3iHIfJo70Hsr8McQWZkKpURyDd-BY/s1600/dc.jpg" /></a>I was seeing this book at least thrice every month in the school library, but never showed interest to read it. The Cover Page had a name "David Copperfield", which was also boring. But one day, I decided to read it, and after reading, I realized what a wonderful novel it was. His aunt has left his mother when he was born, never to meet again as a boy was born. This young boy, David Copperfield loses his father before he was born, and later loses his mother. A person who re-marries her mother , treats him mercilessly. He is then sent to a factory to work, and when he couldn't work any more there, he escapes, writing a letter to Pegotty (who was his housekeeper) to send him some money to go to his aunt. He receives his money, but gets robbed very soon. He then goes to his aunt, walking all the way to Dover. She then adopts him, renaming him 'trot'. He starts out to become a lawyer, after 17, but couldn't continue as his aunt has run out of money.<br />I would not like to reveal the whole story here, so you read to find out what happens next!</div>

David Copperfield - Retold

The writer, Charles Dickens led a very cruel childhood, which he expressed in the form of novels. His father was arrested for debt., and he ...