English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1404 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Oliver Twist and the Social Novel
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The idea
Oliver Twist, serialized from eighteen thirty-seven, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who escapes to London and falls among pickpockets led by Fagin. The anchor says it exposed the cruelty and lack of charity of the Victorian workhouse.
In practice
An orphan, a workhouse, a gang.
Where people slip
The novel attacks an institution.
Your place on the trail
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