Charles Dickens

Date of publication: 1838

eBook License: Public Domain

Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by the English author Charles Dickens. From February 1837 to April 1839, the magazine Bentley's Miscellany published it as a monthly serial novel. Dickens worked as a director in this magazine. In 1839 the story was released as a book form.

It is the first novel in the English language that has a child as the protagonist. Also, Oliver Twist is one of the first social novels of literature's history. Indeed, the book draws attention to social problems such as child labor or the use of children to commit crimes. Dickens treated these severe subjects with sarcasm to ridicule the hypocrisy of society.

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