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| Charles Dickens - "Oliver Twist" |
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| Another postcard of Bill Sikes and Bullseye. (Z) |
| Bill Sikes. |
| "Oliver Twist" was Dickens' second novel, and was first published in monthly instalments between February 1837 and April 1839 in "Bentley's Miscellany". It was a great contrast to his first novel, "The Pickwick Papers", and Dickens used it to target the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act which restructured the Work House system as a means of providing assistance for the poor. The novel introduced many famous fictional characters including Oliver himself, Bill Sikes, Nancy and Fagin. For more information about "Oliver Twist", follow this link. |
| "If you don't take pocket-handkechers and watches, some other cove will, so that the coves that lose 'em will be all the worse, and you'll be all the worse too, and nobody half a ha'porth the better except the chap wot gets them." The Artful Dodger. |
| For more about Charles Dickens and his works, search the internet. |
| Oliver Twist asks for more. "Please, sir, I want some more." The master...gazed in stupified astonishment on the young rebel. |
| (Z) |
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