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Oliver Twist (Esprios Classics), Paperback / softback Book

Oliver Twist (Esprios Classics) Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Oliver Twist is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial from 1837 to 1839.

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 is notable for its unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.

In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children.

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