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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress (commonly known as Oliver Twist) (1838) is Charles Dickens' second novel. It is about a boy named Oliver Twist, who escapes from an workhouse and meets a gang of pickpocketers in London. The novel is one of Dickens's most well-known works, and has been the subject of numerous film and television adaptations.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most memorable characters. His novels and short stories have never gone out of print. A concern with what he saw as the pressing need for social reform is a theme that runs throughout his work.
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Oliver Twist is the first novel in the English language to centre throughout on a child protagonist and is also notable for Dickens's unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives. he book also exposed the cruel treatment of many a waif-child in London, which increced international concern in what is sometimes known as "The Great London Waif Crisis." This was the astounding number of orphans in London in the Dickens era. The book's subtitle, The Parish Boy's Progress alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and also to a pair of popular 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, "A Rake's Progress" and "A Harlot's Progress".
