ДАВАЙТЕ ПОЧИТАЕМ В ОРИГИНАЛЕ! Oliver Twist

Today we are reading Сharles Dickens’s book «Oliver Twist». «Oliver Twist», in full «Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress», novel by Charles Dickens was published in 1838. The novel was the first of the author’s works to realistically depict the impoverished London underworld and to illustrate his belief that poverty leads to crime. Charles Dickens was well versed in the poverty of London, as he himself was a child worker after his father was sent to debtors’ prison. His appreciation of the hardships endured by impoverished citizens stayed with him for the rest of his life and was evident in his journalistic writings and novels. The novel follows the journey of the titular character, Oliver Twist. Oliver, an orphan since birth, spends much of his childhood at a “child farm” (orphanage) with too many children and too little food. «Oliver Twist» was very popular when it was first published. To this day, «Oliver Twist» is enjoyed by many for its historical social commentary and exciting plo