The Classic Readers are a series of simplified and abridged exts that allow intermediate to upper intermediate students to enjoy reading some of the greatest writers of our time. The vocabulary is carefully controlled, and more difficult or uncommon words appear in a glossary.
Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens's best-loved novels. Raised in a workhouse for poor, homeless children, Oliver runs away to London. He falls in with a criminal gang there but then, by good fortune, is taken in by a kind and rich gentleman. The story moves between two sides of English life in the 1830s - an underworld of poverty and crime, and the comfortable, secure world of the upper classes. Oliver learns that love and kindness can be found in both these worlds.
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