Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

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An orphan asks for more gruel, and the request travels the whole English machinery of poverty, crime and administered charity.

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) wrote industrial England from within, mixing comedy, social indictment and serial suspense.

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