5/27/2023 0 Comments Dodger by terry pratchett![]() ![]() ![]() This endangers Simplicity and prompts Charlie to have her moved to the house of his rich friend Angela Burdett-Coutts. These incidents turn Dodger into a celebrity, which helps him gather information, but also make it impossible for him to stay anonymous. During the next days, Dodger thwarts a robbery attempt at the offices of the Morning Chronicle when meeting Charlie, and causes the arrest of a murderous barber named Sweeney Todd when he tries to improve his appearance before meeting Simplicity. Charlie gives Dodger the task of finding information on the streets about her and the carriage from which she escaped. A doctor treats her injuries and discovers that she was pregnant and the child is lost.ĭodger's actions impress the gentlemen, as does the genuine affection they quickly see growing between him and the girl, who is tentatively called Simplicity. This is witnessed by two gentlemen, Charlie and Henry, who take the girl to the latter's nearby home, accompanied by Dodger. The protagonist Dodger, a street urchin and tosher, emerging from a sewer drain, comes to her help and chases away the attackers. One night on the streets of London, a battered young woman leaps from a carriage, followed and assaulted by two men. ![]() ![]() The book was released on 13 September 2012 in the UK. 13 September 2012 (UK), (Doubleday Children's)ĭodger is a novel written by Terry Pratchett, set in early Victorian London, and inspired by Charles Dickens's character the Artful Dodger. ![]()
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