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Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and as a three-volume book in 1838. [1] 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 ...
Rose Maylie (maternal aunt) Captain Fleming (maternal grandfather, deceased) Harry Maylie (maternal uncle by marriage) Mrs. Leeford (step-mother, deceased) Oliver Twist is the title character and protagonist of the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. [1] He was the first child protagonist in an English novel.
Pickpocket. Nationality. English. Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is a character in Charles Dickens 's 1838 novel Oliver Twist. [1] The Dodger is a pickpocket and his nickname refers to his skill and cunning in that occupation. In the novel, he is the leader of the gang of child criminals on the streets of London trained and ...
Lionel Bart. Lionel Bart (1 August 1930 – 3 April 1999) was an English writer and composer of pop music and musicals. He wrote Tommy Steele 's "Rock with the Caveman" and was the sole creator of the musical Oliver! (1960). With Oliver! and his work alongside theatre director Joan Littlewood at Theatre Royal, Stratford East, he played an ...
Signature. Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈdɪkɪnz /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
Dombey and Son. Followed by. Bleak House. David Copperfield[N 1] is a novel by Charles Dickens, narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield, detailing his adventures in his journey from infancy to maturity. As such, it is typically categorized in the bildungsroman genre. It was published as a serial in 1849 and 1850 and then as a book in 1850.
Eliza Davis (1817–1903) was a Jewish English woman who is remembered for her correspondence with the novelist Charles Dickens about his depiction of Jewish characters in his novels . Davis was born in Jamaica. In 1835 she married her cousin [1] James Phineas Davis (1812–1886), a banker, who, in 1860, bought Tavistock House in London from ...
His most important works include Oliver Twist (1837–1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838–1839), A Christmas Carol (1843), Dombey and Son (1846–1848), David Copperfield (1849–1850), Bleak House (1852–1853), Little Dorrit (1855–1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1860–1861). His later novels become progressively ...