Oliver Twist
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| - | '''''The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction''''' (1998) is a book by [[Patrick Brantlinger]] | ||
| - | Patrick Brantlinger's 1998 work, ''[[The Reading Lesson]]'', is a valuable study of 19th-century elitist attitudes toward mass literacy. As Brantlinger reminds us, the reading of popular Victorian novels was viewed as "vampiric" and "addictive." Too much reading was an impediment to living; books and the fantasies they inspired ill-prepared their readers for real life. ([[Charles Paul Freund]][http://www.reason.com/links/links072204.shtml] | + | '''''Oliver Twist''''', subtitled '''''The Parish Boy's Progress''''', is the second novel by English author [[Charles Dickens]], published by [[Richard Bentley (publisher)|Richard Bentley]] in 1838. The story is about an [[orphan]], [[Oliver Twist (character)|Oliver Twist]], who endures a miserable existence in a [[workhouse]] and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the [[Artful Dodger]], leader of a gang of juvenile [[Pickpocketing|pickpockets]]. Naïvely unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer [[Fagin]].{{GFDL}} |
| - | CAPs: [[New Grub Street]], [[Oliver Twist]], [[Lady Audley]], [[Poor Jane]], [[Vanity Fair]] (more) | + | |
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Oliver Twist, subtitled The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naïvely unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin.
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