digital audio
English language
Published Sept. 25, 2012 by HarperCollins.
Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's Dodger, a Printz Honor Book, combines high comedy with deep wisdom in a tale of one remarkable boy's rise in a fantasy-infused Victorian London.
Seventeen-year-old Dodger is content as a sewer scavenger. But he enters a new world when he rescues a young girl from a beating, and her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England.
From Dodger's encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd, to his meetings with the great writer Charles Dickens and the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure and mystery. source: www.harpercollins.com/9780062201959/dodger/
The first time I tried to read this I gave up, not sure why. This time I was much more captured by a fun victorian romp through London sewers with the origins of many well known dickens characters.
3-. This reimagining of the teenage Jack Dawkins/Artful Dodger as, for the most part, the hero (hero-adjacent)? includes characters Sweeney Todd, writer Charles Dickens, and politician Benjamin Disraeli.
It was an OK read. I didn't have any strong feelings about it one way or the other. The humor is its saving grace.
3-. This reimagining of the teenage Jack Dawkins/Artful Dodger as, for the most part, the hero (hero-adjacent)? includes characters Sweeney Todd, writer Charles Dickens, and politician Benjamin Disraeli.
It was an OK read. I didn't have any strong feelings about it one way or the other. The humor is its saving grace.
