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Charles Dickens second novel, Oliver Twist or the Parish Boys Progress, was first published as a serial (in monthly instalments) in the magazine Bentleys Miscellany from February 1837 to April 1839. The novel was inspired by Robert Blincoes account of his childhood spent in a cotton mill. Oliver Twist, an orphan, is born in a workhouse and later sold off into an apprenticeship. Dickens situates his protagonist amid the squalid lives of beggars, criminals and petty thieves. Trapped in a world of corruption and poverty, Oliver with his pure heart is rewarded with a fair ytale ending. The dark reality of child labour, the effects of industrialisation and the condition of orphans in London in the mid-19th century form the crux of Dickens heartrending novel.

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