... , Great expectations , The Posthumorous Papers of the Pickwick Club. He was great humanist and critic of social conditions. The novel Oliver Twist comes from his early writings and it doesn't belong to his best works. This novel was serialized in 1837-9 and published in a book form in 1838. Oliver Twist is a small orphan who runs ... the inhumane New Poor Law of 1834 and to correct the glamorous portrayal of criminals in the Newgate novel of the date. Charles Dickens in the first part describes the poor life of Oliver Twist. He was born as an orphan and he was sent to the workhouse. Here ...

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