In Allison Epstein’s imaginative retelling of Oliver Twist, Fagin the Thief, Jacob Fagin gets his own remarkable story.
Doubleday
9780385550703
Doubleday
9780385550703
In Allison Epstein’s imaginative retelling of Oliver Twist, Fagin the Thief, Jacob Fagin gets his own remarkable story.
Meet Jacob Fagin, pickpocket extraordinaire of 19th-century London. He lives in an abandoned property on Bell Court with a cluster of proteges: children who, with no roof over their heads, no food to eat and no family to turn to, ended up on his doorstep. He is, through one lens, a hero to be admired.…
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