64 pages

English language

Published April 19, 2007 by Real Reads Ltd..

ISBN:
978-1-906230-00-5
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Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838, before the serialisation ended. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the "Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin. Oliver Twist contains an unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives, and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress.In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises the hypocrisies of his time, including …

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A lot of people I know always say they Dickens is hard to read and when I started olive twist a few said good luck with that and sniggered as they went back to their Harry Potter books. I found this to be a fantastic story, I only had a brief knowledge of the story and the characters from films at Christmas. The style it is written in transported me to London, I managed to have a voice for each character, at times I think I was mistaken for Jack the Ripper. Best character in the book was Mr Bunce, I don't think I have ever felt as sorry for a character as him when he got married. I drive past this pub now and then called Mr Bunce, I never had any idea who it was until reading this book.

The violence in this book is pretty graphic at …

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  • Children's fiction
  • Orphans, fiction
  • England, fiction

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