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I made the mistake of reading the book in English before I read it in Czech. I'm not ashamed to brag that my English is C1, but no one prepared me for Victorian English.
Because of this, I found the first few chapters very difficult to read and although the chapters are very short, I found the reading long.
Thanks to what a very rich vocabulary Mr. Dickens had (and that he wasn't afraid to use it), I learned quite a few new/old words. Maybe that's why Oliver Twist came out at almost 500 pages, when I think half that would have been plenty. But it wouldn't be Dickens if he hadn't written so much and we didn't know the grand story of Oliver Twist.
By the end of the book, I was relieved that the main character of the story had finally achieved the well-deserved peace and understanding he had lacked since birth.
I made the mistake of reading the book in English before I read it in Czech. I'm not ashamed to brag that my English is C1, but no one prepared me for Victorian English.
Because of this, I found the first few chapters very difficult to read and although the chapters are very short, I found the reading long.
Thanks to what a very rich vocabulary Mr. Dickens had (and that he wasn't afraid to use it), I learned quite a few new/old words. Maybe that's why Oliver Twist came out at almost 500 pages, when I think half that would have been plenty. But it wouldn't be Dickens if he hadn't written so much and we didn't know the grand story of Oliver Twist.
By the end of the book, I was relieved that the main character of the story had finally achieved the well-deserved peace and understanding he had lacked since birth.