You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
A review by brampton
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
4.0
This book has such pointless footnotes that really intrude in the reading.
They are either...
a) Irrelevant explaining something that isn't especially peculiar to Dickens that could be looked up in any dictionary if required.
b) Dubious, such as explaining an adenoidal character saying "Dow" means Down, when I suspect it should actually be "Now!"
c) Unnecessary when Dickens explains the criminal argot in the next paragraph anyway.
or
d) Missing. The criteria by which words were deemed worthy of a footnote was unfathomable as some terms which deserved explanation got nothing.
They are either...
a) Irrelevant explaining something that isn't especially peculiar to Dickens that could be looked up in any dictionary if required.
b) Dubious, such as explaining an adenoidal character saying "Dow" means Down, when I suspect it should actually be "Now!"
c) Unnecessary when Dickens explains the criminal argot in the next paragraph anyway.
or
d) Missing. The criteria by which words were deemed worthy of a footnote was unfathomable as some terms which deserved explanation got nothing.