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Many believe that the energy expended in these performances, which he read with such passion and violence that woman fainted in the aisles, hastened his early death in June, He was short for his age; with rather bow-legs, and little, sharp, ugly eyes. His hat was stuck on the top of his head so lightly, that it threatened to fall off every moment and would have done so, very often, if the wearer had not had a knack of every now and then, giving his head a sudden twitch, which brought it back to its old place again.

He wore a man's coat, which reached nearly to his heels. He had turned the cuffs back, half-way up his arm, to get his hands out of the sleeves, apparently with the ultimate view of thrusting them into the pockets of his corduroy trousers; for there he kept them.

He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in his bluchers. Ruth Richardson's wonderful exploration of Dickens' childhood home on Norfolk Street, London and the influence of the workhouse located nearby. Charles Dickens' second novel tells the story of the orphan Oliver set against the seamy underside of the London criminal world. Published in monthly parts in Bentley's Miscellany , partly concurrent with Pickwick and Nicholas Nickleby , the novel was illustrated by George Cruikshank.

Dickens did not originally plan to have the story of Oliver to be a novel. The story was begun as a continuation of the Mudfog based on Chatham, his childhood home story he wrote for the first edition of Bentley's Miscellany. Michael Slater, in his biography Charles Dickens , relates that by the sixth installment of the story he resolved to make the book the first of two novels he was contracted to write for Richard Bentley and began to introduce details in the story that hinted at future plot complications.

In this departure from the merry world of Pickwick, Dickens targets the Poor Law Amendment Act of which renewed the importance of the workhouse as a means of relief for the poor.

Dickens was severely criticized for introducing criminals and prostitutes in Oliver Twist , to which Dickens replied, in the preface to the Library Edition of Oliver Twist in , "I saw no reason, when I wrote this book, why the very dregs of life, so long as their speech did not offend the ear, should not serve the purpose of a moral, at least as well as its froth and cream.

One of the most dramatized of Charles Dickens' works, Oliver Twist was appearing in 10 theaters in London before serialization of the novel was even completed. The Internet Movie Database lists nearly 25 film versions, the first in Academy Award winning filmmaker Roman Polanski is the latest to bring the little orphan boy to the silver screen.

Back to Top. An infant is born of a dying mother in a parish workhouse. Old Sally , attending the birth and death, takes from the dying woman a locket and ring. Bumble , the beadle, names the boy Oliver Twist. Oliver asks for more by George Cruikshank Oliver is sent to an infant farm, run by Mrs Mann , until he is 9 years old, at which time he is returned to the workhouse. The orphans at the workhouse are starving due to callous mistreatment and cast lots to decide who among them will ask for more gruel on behalf of the group and Oliver is chosen.

At supper that evening, after the normal allotment, Oliver advances to the master and asks for more. Oliver is branded a troublemaker and is offered as an apprentice to anyone willing to take him. After narrowly escaping being bound to a chimney sweep, a very dangerous business where small boys are routinely smothered being lowered into chimneys, Oliver is apprenticed to the undertaker, Mr Sowerber ry.

Oliver fights with Noah Claypole , another of the undertaker's boys, after Noah mocks Oliver's dead mother. After being unjustly beaten for this offense, Oliver escapes the undertaker's and runs away to London.

Oliver meets Fagin's gang by George Cruikshank On the outskirts on the city Oliver, tired and hungry, meets Jack Dawkins who offers a place to stay in London. Thus Oliver is thrown together with the band of thieves run by the sinister Fagin. Oliver innocently goes "to work" with Dawkins, also known as the Artful Dodger, and Charlie Bates , another of Fagin's boys, and witnesses the real business when Dawkins picks the pocket of a gentleman.

When the gentleman, Mr Brownlow , discovers the robbery in progress Oliver is mistaken for the culprit and, after a chase, is captured and taken to the police. Oliver, injured in the chase, is cleared by a witness to the crime and is taken by the kindly Brownlow to his home to recuperate. Oliver is kindly treated at the Brownlow home and, after a period of recuperation, is sent on an errand by Mr Brownlow to pay a local merchant 5 pounds and to return some books.

On carrying out this charge Oliver is captured by Nancy and Bill Sikes and returned to Fagin's den of thieves. Mr Brownlow, thinking that Oliver has run away with his money concludes that Oliver was a thief all along. This assumption is further strengthened when Bumble the beadle, answering an ad in the paper, placed by Brownlow, for information concerning Oliver, gives a disparaging opinion of Oliver.

The Burglary by George Cruikshank Oliver is forced by Fagin to accompany Sikes in an attempted robbery, needing a small boy to enter a window and open the door for the housebreakers. The robbery is foiled when the house is alarmed and, in the ensuing confusion, Oliver is shot. Oliver is nursed back to health at the home of the Maylies , the house Sikes was attempting to burglarize.

Oliver imparts his story to the Maylies and Doctor Losberne. The mysterious Monks , revealed to be Oliver's half brother, teams up with Fagin in an attempt to recapture Oliver and lead him into a life of crime thereby negating the unknowing Oliver's claim to his rightful inheritance which would then go to Monks.

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