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An edition of Oliver Twist (1822)

Oliver Twist

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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 the titular orphan, 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 London in the mid-19th century.[2] 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.

In an early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises child labour, domestic violence, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own experiences as a youth contributed as well, considering he spent two years of his life in the workhouse at the age of 12 and subsequently, missed out on some of his education.

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Oliver Twist
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Oliver Twist
2019-09-29, LibriVox
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Oliver Twist
2019-04-20, LibriVox
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Oliver Twist
2018-02-17, Project Gutenberg
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Oliver Twist
2017-07-12, LibriVox
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Oliver Twist
2017-11-05, LibriVox
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Los Ladrones de Londres
2016-11-06, LibriVox
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Oliver Twist: or, The Parish Boy's Progress
2014-08-24, Project Gutenberg
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Oliver Twist
2012-01-16, LibriVox
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Oliver Twist
2011-06-11, LibriVox
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De avonturen van Oliver Twist
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Oliver Twist
2011-11-09, LibriVox
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Oliver Twist
2006-11-19, LibriVox
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Oliver Twist
2005-06-07, Project Gutenberg
ebook in English
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Oliver Twist
1996-11-01, Project Gutenberg
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Oliver Twist
1992, Alfred A. Knopf
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Les Aventures d'Olivier Twist
1986-10-06, France loisirs
Hardcover in French - Edition du Club France Loisirs
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Oliver Twist (Progress English)
April 1985, Oxford University Press
Paperback in English - Abridged Ed edition
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Oliver Twist
1979, Dodd, Mead & Company
hardcover in English - 1979 edition
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Oliver Twist
1967, Blackie
Paperback in English
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Oliver Twist
1961, New American Library
mass market paperback in English - printing (12)
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Oliver Twist
1942, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
hardcover in English
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Oliver Twist
1920, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
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The Adventures of Oliver Twist
xxxx, Heron Books
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Oliver Twist
xxxx, Dean & Son Ltd.
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Source title: Oliver Twist (Infantil-Juvenil) (Spanish Edition)

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paperback
Number of pages
342

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OL47133241M
ISBN 10
8413373158
ISBN 13
9788413373157

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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 work-house; and in this work-house 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 reader, in this stage of the business at all events-the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter."

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