Fang the Police Magistrate and furnishes a slight specimen of his mode of administering justice Being a short, but very important chapter, in this history Oliver becomes better acquainted with the characters of his new associates and purchases experience at a high price. He encounters on the road a strange sort of young gentlemanĬontaining further particulars concerning the pleasant old Gentleman and his hopeful pupils

Oliver being goaded by the taunts of Noah, rouses into action, and rather astonishes him Going to a funeral for the first time, he forms an unfavourable notion of his master's business Oliver, being offered another place, makes his first entry into public life Relates how Oliver Twist was very near getting a place, which would not have been a sinecure Treats of Oliver Twist's growth, education and board Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was born and of the circumstances attending his birth 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. 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. 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 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. 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.

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. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Oliver Twist or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens.

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