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Oliver Twist

OR, The Parish Boy's Progress

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An edition of Oliver Twist (1838)

Oliver Twist

OR, The Parish Boy's Progress

2nd printing
  • 3.92 ·
  • 53 Ratings
  • 493 Want to read
  • 45 Currently reading
  • 79 Have read

For a halt-starved orphan boy, horror lurks in the dark slums of London. Pickpockets, hags, and murderers slink through twisted alleyways. Be. hind stand bleak workhouses, prison, and the looming gallows.

In this great masterpiece, Dickens depicts the brutal underworld—and the nightmare of a boy trapped in crime.

The award-winning movie-musical, Oliver!, is based on this famous novel.

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Edition Notes

Scholastic Book Services #TK810 [$0.75]

Other Titles
The Parish Boy's Progress
Copyright Date
1969 by Scholastic Magazines, Inc.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR4567 .A3 1837

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
557p.
Number of pages
557
Dimensions
7 x 4.13 x 1.25 inches
Weight
10.4 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24368736M
Internet Archive
olivertwistorpar00dick
LCCN
06037239
OCLC/WorldCat
7746178
Goodreads
4028113

First Sentence

"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."

Work Description

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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