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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

Given the reputation and gravity of Oliver Twist, it is sometimes difficult to recall that this was only Dickens� second novel, written and serialised in 1838. Moreover, it was a risky project because Dickens had won massive popular acclaim on the basis of his preceding novel, The Pickwick Papers (1836), which could not have been more different in its comic recording of the adventures of the �Pickwick Club�. Nevertheless, Dickens� novel of the pauper child�s struggles in the wickedness of London�s thieves� kitchens was to become one of his most enduring, popular successes, adapted for stage and screen multiple times since its inception and as popular ...

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could make them care about many. Though it may be �a mistake to think of Oliver Twist as a realistic story� it nevertheless contains enduring truths and such descriptions as �the pauper's funeral in Chapter Five [were] also historically accurate�.

The novel concerns the story of a child, born out of wedlock in the workhouse of �a certain town�. By refusing to name the town, Dickens is not only dismissive of all such places as not worth the �trouble� of mentioning but also imposing a comprehensively applicable generic, as he is on the emblematic child himself. After a series of early struggles, set pieces, such as Oliver�s asking for �more�, having become so powerfully entrenched in the public consciousness as to make them almost clich�d, Oliver becomes so desperate that he walks to London and is immediately sucked into the world of thieves and vagabonds which so powerfully populate the novel. A palpable concern with these characters, such as Fagin and Sikes, is that they are, ...

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Added: 11/8/2013 04:51:11 AM
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