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Oliver Twist
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A social novel of orphanhood, poverty, crime, innocence, and the harsh machinery of charity.
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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist follows a child from workhouse cruelty into London’s criminal underworld, exposing institutions that punish the poor while pretending benevolence. Dickens blends melodrama, satire, and pathos around innocence under pressure.
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Charles Dickens died in 1870, and Oliver Twist was first published in 1839. These dates support the public-domain basis for this English original edition.
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- 03TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE
- 04CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH
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