| Oliver Twist Contributor(s): Mybook (Editor), Dickens, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1547045159 ISBN-13: 9781547045150 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $15.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Literary Collections |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 530 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.31 lbs) 446 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens 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. The alternate title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress. 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. 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. |