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Written by Charles Dickens - Audio book performed by Anton Lesser - Abridged Fiction - 4 COMPACT DISCS - 5 hours

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (November 2002)

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Read with intensity and comic versatility, Oliver Twist is Dickens’ second novel, and the eighth title in Naxos AudioBooks’ series of the great works of Charles Dickens. Coming shortly after Pickwick Papers, it is a thrilling study of childhood innocence thrust into the darkly comic world of Fagin, his apprentice the Artful Dodger and their gang of child thieves. Who will help the orphaned Oliver to escape from their clutches and discover his true history? The original story is even more powerful than the musical that popularized it.

About the Performer: Anton Lesser is one of Britain's leading classical actors. He has played many of the principal Shakespearian roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Petruchio, Romeo and Richard III. He also starred in the acclaimed Royal National Theatre production of Wild Oats. Appearances in major TV drama productions include The Cherry Orchard, Troilus and Cressida, The Mill on the Floss and The Politician's Wife.

"I don't do 'voices'. I look for the characters..."