Oliver Twist

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Oliver Twist is Charles Dickens's classic 1838 novel about an orphan boy who endures hardship in workhouses and among criminals in Victorian England while seeking love, identity, and justice.

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instanceOf literary work ⓘ
novel ⓘ
adaptedAs film ⓘ
musical ⓘ
stage play ⓘ
television series ⓘ
alsoKnownAs The Parish Boy’s Progress ⓘ
author Charles Dickens ⓘ
completedIn 1839 ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
criticizes Poor Laws ⓘ
workhouse system ⓘ
featuresCharacter Bill Sikes ⓘ
Fagin ⓘ
Monks ⓘ
Mr. Brownlow ⓘ
Mr. Bumble ⓘ
Nancy ⓘ
The Artful Dodger ⓘ
firstPublicationForm serialisation ⓘ
firstPublishedIn Bentley’s Miscellany ⓘ
form prose fiction ⓘ
genre Bildungsroman ⓘ
crime fiction ⓘ
social criticism ⓘ
social novel ⓘ
hasIllustrationsBy George Cruikshank ⓘ
influenced later social problem novels ⓘ
literaryMovement Victorian literature ⓘ
mainCharacter Oliver Twist (character) ⓘ
narrativePerspective third-person narration ⓘ
notableAdaptation Oliver! (1968 film) ⓘ
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Oliver! (musical) ⓘ
linked to: Oliver!
originalLanguage English ⓘ
partOf Victorian canon ⓘ
publicationYear 1838 ⓘ
publisher Richard Bentley ⓘ
settingPeriod Victorian era ⓘ
settingPlace England ⓘ
London ⓘ
linked to: London, England
theme charity and hypocrisy ⓘ
child labor ⓘ
class inequality ⓘ
crime ⓘ
identity ⓘ
orphanhood ⓘ
poverty ⓘ
social injustice ⓘ
timeOfFirstSerialisation 1837 ⓘ

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