{"id":1745,"date":"2012-11-09T04:46:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T09:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2012-11-09T11:18:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T16:18:17","slug":"dodger-by-terry-pratchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/dodger-by-terry-pratchett\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodger by Terry Pratchett"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dodger\"<\/a>Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld novels,\u00a0 leaves fantasy for a moment to write about Victorian England with Dodger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As you might guess, the main character of the novel is\u00a0 based on the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist<\/em>. \u00a0 Dodger is\u00a0 a young adult who lives by his wits in London.\u00a0 The story starts out on, pardon the clich\u00e9, a dark and stormy night …<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Seventeen-year-old Dodger may be a street urchin, but he gleans a living from London’s sewers, and he knows a jewel when he sees one. He’s not about to let anything happen to the unknown girl\u2014not even if her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett combines high comedy with deep wisdom in this tale of an unexpected coming-of-age and one remarkable boy’s rise in a complex and fascinating world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dodger by Terry Pratchett<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld novels,\u00a0 leaves fantasy for a moment to write about Victorian England with Dodger. As you might guess, the main character of the novel is\u00a0 based on the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist. \u00a0 Dodger …<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[109,825,371,373],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charles-dickens","tag-benjamin-disraeli","tag-charles-dickens","tag-oliver-twist","tag-terry-pratchett"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}