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Terry Pratchett, Laura Ellen Andersen: Dodger (2019, Penguin Random House)

416 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 15 de Enero de 2019 por Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-552-57720-5
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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. 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. Seventeen-year-old Dodger …

12 ediciones

Temas

  • Fantasy fiction
  • London (england), history, fiction
  • Adventure and adventurers, fiction
  • Love, fiction
  • Conduct of life, fiction
  • Humorous stories
  • Children's fiction