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Oliver Twist naît orphelin dans l'Angleterre du XIXe siècle. Mal nourri, exploité dès ses plus jeunes années, le pauvre garçon endure tout avec patience. Mais il refuse un jour les traitements injustes qu'il subit et fuit vers Londres. Epuisé, affamé, il est recueilli par une bande de jeunes voleurs. Il découvre alors un autre monde, tout aussi cruel, où la ruse et la force sont les meilleures armes. Le destin cessera-t-il de s'acharner contre Oliver ? A l'occasion de la sortie en salles du film de Roman Polanski, Le Livre de Poche Jeunesse propose une nouvelle traduction d'Oliver Twist par Michel Laporte, qui restitue toute la fraîcheur et le rythme, la tendresse et l'ironie du chef-d'œuvre de Charles Dickens.

There the orphan Pip is disturbed to meet an escaped convict, Magwitch, but gives him food, in an encounter that is to haunt both their lives. How Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor, snobbishly abandons his friends for London society and 'great expectations', and grows through misfortune and suffering to maturity is the theme of one of Dickens's best loved novels. (Take from back cover of book.).

Perhaps Dickens's best-loved work, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a young man with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefactor allows him to escape the Kent marshes for a more promising life in London. Despite his good fortune, Pip is haunted by figures from his past--the escaped convict Magwitch, the time-withered Miss Havisham, and her proud and beautiful ward, Estella--and in time uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery of his own heart. A powerful and moving novel, Great Expectations is suffused with Dickens's memories of the past and its grip on the present, and it raises disturbing questions about the extent to which individuals affect each other's lives. This edition reprints the definitive Clarendon text. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's new introduction ranges widely across critical issues raised by the novel: its biographical genesis, ideas of origin and progress and what makes a gentleman, memory, melodrama, and the book's critical reception. The book includes four appendices and the fullest set of critical notes in any mass-market edition.