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In an ‘Oliver Twist’ prequel, Fagin gets a first name — and the spotlight
A new 'Oliver Twist' prequel is told from the perspective of one of literature's most antisemitic caricatures.
Charles Dickens’s Fagin gets rehabilitated, again
Allison Epstein’s “Fagin the Thief” is the latest work to reimagine a famously offensive character from “Oliver Twist” ...
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Allison Epstein's 'Fagin the Thief' gives the Oliver Twist character a backstory
That was my introduction to the character of Fagin. And then as I got old enough to read the actual "Oliver Twist," I very quickly realized this is a very different kind of character in the ...
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Allison Epstein's 'Fagin the Thief' gives the Oliver Twist character a backstory
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist." ...