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About the Author

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Charles John Huffham Dickens was born in Portsea, on England’s southern coast, on February 7, 1812. The Dickens family moved several times during his youth, […]

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Overview

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Dickens, like Shakespeare, is one of those rare writers who has always appealed to a wide variety of readers. Many of Dickens’s books were published, […]

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Setting

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Dickens sets Oliver Twist in early 19th-century England, a time when long-held ideas and beliefs came under serious scrutiny. Profound changes brought about by the […]

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Themes and Characters

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Dickens’s story revolves around young Oliver Twist, an orphan brought up at a “charitable” institution “where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws […]

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Literary Qualities

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Oliver Twist is Dickens’s second novel, written when he was still in his middle 20s, and does not display the brilliance of character, thought, form, […]

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Social Sensitivity

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Some of Dickens’s original readers objected to Oliver Twist’s comparatively frank portrayal of thieves, pickpockets, and prostitutes. But what was considered explicit then is quite […]

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Ideas and Topics for Papers

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VII TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Is Nancy a morally complex character? What evidence supports your conclusions? 2. Is Oliver really the central character in the […]

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Adaptations

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Oliver Twist has been the basis for several films, the most popular of which is the musical Oliver! (1968). Starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, and […]

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About the Author

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Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of Grace and Clarence Edmonds Hemingway. Hemingway first published his writing […]

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Overview and Setting

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II OVERVIEW The Old Man and the Sea is one of the most popular and moving works of the twentieth century. When The Old Man […]