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Oliver Twist

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Also known as The Adventures of Oliver Twist, The Parish Boy's Progress

1837–1839 novel by Charles Dickens

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"Oliver Twist" is a novel by Charles Dickens published between 1837 and 1839 that follows a young orphan's experiences in 19th-century England. The story is considered significant for its vivid portrayal of poverty and social injustice during the Victorian era.

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Author
Charles Dickens
First published
1822
Editions
2,209
Subjects
Bildungsromans, Boys, Brigands and robbers, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), British fiction, Children, Children's fiction, Children's stories

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title
Oliver Twist
publication date
1800-00-00
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オリヴァー・ツイスト
inception
1837-00-00
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Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the
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But, if the spirits of the Dead ever come back to earth, to visit spots hallowed by the love—the love beyond the grave—of those whom they knew in life, I believe that the shade of Agnes sometimes hovers round that solemn nook. I believe it none the less because that nook is in a Church, and she was weak and erring.
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or, The Parish Boy's Progress
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Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and as a three-volume book in 1838. The story follows orphan Oliver Twist, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London, where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin, discovers the secrets of his parentage, and reconnects with his remaining family.

Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in England 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 painter William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress.

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