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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist : Extract from chapter I.

( Penguin Popular Classics - page 3 ) : … and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words,

'let me see the child and die.'

The 2005 film (Roman Polanski)
' Plot Outline: An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.'

Ben Kingsley	....	Fagin
Barney Clark	....	Oliver Twist
Leanne Rowe	....	Nancy
Mark Strong	....	Toby Crackit
Jamie Foreman	....	Bill Sykes
Harry Eden	....	Artful Dodger
Edward Hardwicke	....	Mr. Brownlow
Ian McNeice	....	Mr. Limbkins
Jeremy Swift	....	Mr. Bumble
Frances Cuka	....	Mrs. Bedwin
Michael Heath	....	Mr. Sowerberry
Gillian Hanna	....	Mrs. Sowerberry
Alun Armstrong	....	Magistrate Fang
Andy de la Tour	....	Workhouse Master
Peter Copley	....	Dining Hall Master

' I want some more.'

Barney Clark in 'Oliver Twist.'

'Oliver Twist'

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1. The surgeon depositedthrewdropped it in her arms.
2. She imprimed her dirtycoldwarm white lips on its forehead;
3. passed her hands alongonover her face;
4. gazed widelywildlywild round;
5. shudderingshudderedshudders;
6. fell back - and was deaddeaddied
7. They chafed her breathbeastbreast, hands and temples;
8. but the blood had stopped for eitherneverever;
9. They talked offoron hope and comfort.
10. They had been strangers twototoo long.
11. 'It's all over, Mrs Thingummy !' said the surgeon at lastlostlast.
12. 'Ah, poor dear, andthatso it is !' said the nurse,
13. picking up the cork of the green bottle, which had fallingfellfallen out
14. on the pillow, as she stoopsstoopedstopped to take up the child. 'Poor dear !'
15. 'You needn't mind sending up to me, if the child crieswill crycried, nurse,'
16. said the nurseneighboursurgeon, putting on his gloves with great deliberation.
17. 'It's very likely it will be troubledtroublingtroublesome . Give it a little gruel if it is.'
18. He put on his hat, and pausedpausingposed by the bed-side on his way to the door, added,
19. 'she was a good-looking girl, too; whenwherewhy did she come from ?'
20. 'She hadwashas brought here last night, replied the old woman...