Oliver Twist; Or, the Parish Boy's Progress (1838) Is Charles Dickens's Second Novel

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress (1838) is Charles Dickens's second novel. It was first published as a book by Richard Bentley in 1838. It tells the story of an orphan boy and his adventures among London's slums. Oliver is captured by, and forced to work among, pickpockets and thieves until redeemed by a gentleman who has taken an interest in him. Characters include Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger. The book David Copperfield is a novel by Charles is one of the earliest examples of the social novel. It draws the Dickens. Like his other novels, it first came out as a series in a reader's attention to contemporary evils such as child labour, the magazine under the title The Personal History, Adventures, recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of children. Blunderstone Rookery (which he never meant to publish on any The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, account)[1] an orphan whose account of hardships as a child labourer in a The story is told in the first person. Some of the greatest Dickens cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's characters appear in the novel, such as the evil clerk Uriah Heep. own early youth as a child labourer contributed to the story's Other villains in David's life are his brutal stepfather, Edward development. The book influenced American writer Horatio Alger, Murdstone, and Mr. Creakle, the headmaster of the boarding school Jr. and his stories of poor boys living on the streets of nineteenth- that Murdstone sends him to. century New York City. The book has been adapted to a popular The evil characters are balanced by the good characters, such as musical play called Oliver!and several movies, notably a 1948 Peggotty – the faithful servant of the Copperfield family and a production starring Alec Guiness as Fagin. A Disney animated lifelong companion to David. Others include David's aunt Betsy feature about alley cats called Oliver & Company has also been Trotwood and her friend Mr. Dick. Agnes Wickfield is a close friend released. of David since childhood, and later becomes David's second wife and mother of their children. Mr. Micawber is a gentle and friendly an mwho goes to debtors' prison, but in the end makes a success as a All these textsa are excerpted from wimple wikipedia sheep farmer in Australia. He is based on Dickens's own father.[2 A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events. The most notable are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Darnay is a former French aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Carton is a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnay's wife. The 45-chapter novel was published in 31 weekly instalments in Dickens' new literary periodical titled All the Year Round. From April 1859 to November 1859..

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