Title: Oliver Twist
\nAuthor: Charles Dickens
\nPublication: Serialized 1837\u20131839; book form 1838<\/p>\n
Charles John Huffam Dickens<\/a> (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870) was an English writer and critic of the Victorian era<\/a>. His literary works reflect his personal experience of growing up and the social context of his time, and were widely recognized and loved by critics, scholars and readers of his time and later generations.<\/p>\n In The Oliver Twist, Dickens mixes cold reality with relentless satire, describing the side effects of the Industrial Revolution<\/a> on nineteenth-century England. The innocent Oliver was caught up in the world, and his only way out was the poorhouse, Fagin’s gang, prison or the grave; and the poorhouse<\/a> at that time was so disorganized that many kinds of old, young and poor people were living together, and it was called “social grave” and “living grave”. The “social graveyard” and “living grave” were also known.<\/p>\n In this newly industrialized\/institutionalized context, fairy tales also proliferated. In this corrupt and degenerate environment, the passive Oliver maintains his true purity; he abhors sin when everyone else succumbs, and in a fairy tale style, Oliver is eventually rewarded – a peaceful life in the countryside and the company of charitable friends. In his march toward a happy ending, Dickens also explores the lives and possible landscapes of wandering, orphaned children in 1830s London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Characters<\/h3>\n
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Background Of Story<\/h3>\n