Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Mar 2011 · Bentang Pustaka

About this ebook

Jika semua bukti bisa menjeratnya, Oliver akan dikirim kerja paksa tanpa dibayar dan makanan layak. Betapa malang nasib bocah yatim piatu itu. Sepertinya tak ada yang menganggapnya pantas berbahagia. Haruskah dia terus-menerus berada di jalanan dan menjadi sampah yang tidak diinginkan siapa pun?ÿ

Oliver Twist adalah salah satu karya besar Charles Dickens. Ditulis sebagai bentuk keprihatinan Dickens terhadap nasib anak-anak di Inggris pada masa itu yang terpaksa harus turun ke jalan karena kemiskinan. Kini, sebagian besar anak-anak di berbagai belahan dunia ketiga terancam mengalami hal serupa, tak terkecuali Indonesia. Tokoh-tokoh dalam novel ini sangat mudah ditemui dalam keseharian kita: pribadi-pribadi yang munafik, rakus, kejam dan gila harta, meskipun ada juga sebagian orang yang masih tetap bersedia mendengarkan nuraninya. Novel ini sungguh layak dibaca karena mengusik hakikat kemanusiaan dalam diri kita. [Mizan, Bentang, Novel, Terjemahan, Klasik, Indonesia]

About the author

Charles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on February 7, 1812. His happy early childhood was interrupted when his father was sent to debtors' prison, and young Dickens had to go to work in a factory at age twelve. Later, he took jobs as an office boy and journalist before publishing essays and stories in the 1830s. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, made him a famous and popular author at the age of twenty-five. Subsequent works were published serially in periodicals and cemented his reputation as a master of colorful characterization, and as a harsh critic of social evils and corrupt institutions. His many books include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, and the couple had nine children before separating in 1858 when he began a long affair with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. Despite the scandal, Dickens remained a public figure, appearing often to read his fiction. He died in 1870, leaving his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.