Book:Dodger
| Dodger | |
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| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | 13 September 2012 |
| ISBN | 0385619278 |
| Pages | 356 |
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| All data relates to the first UK edition. | |
A storm. Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a girl leap desperately from a horse-drawn carriage, in a vain attempt to escape her captors. Can the lad stand by and let her be caught again? Of course not, because he's . . . Dodger!
In an alternative London, ruled by the young Queen Victoria, an enterprising lad can find adventure and opportunity - if he is very smart, and very, very lucky. Dodger has the brains, the luck - and the cheek - to scrape by on his own.
Everyone knows Dodger, and everyone likes Dodger. Which is a good thing, because life for a boy on the streets is anything but easy. And it's about to get seriously complicated as a simple haircut turns momentous when Dodger unknowingly puts a stop to the murderous barber Sweeney Todd.
From Dodger's encounters with fictional villains to his meetings with Darwin, Disraeli, and Dickens, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking tale of adventure and mystery, unexpected coming-of-age, and one remarkable boy's rise in a complex and fascinating world.
Characters
- Dodger, a tosher (someone who searches in sewers for valuable items).
- Solomon Cohen
- Simplicity
- Grandad
- Joseph Bazalgette
- Angela Burdett-Coutts
- Charles Dickens
- Henry Mayhew
- the Outlander
- Robert Peel
- Disraeli
- Queen Victoria
- Sweeney Todd
- Karl Marx (referenced)