One of the best known novels of Charles Dickens, which follows the fate of an orphaned workhouse boy. It has been filmed several times, and was turned into the stage musical (and later film) Oliver! by Lionel Bart.
Dickens' second novel it was published in serial form, 1837-9, and as a three-volume book in 1838.
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Oliver Twist
Titular character in the novel by Daniel Defoe published in 1719. See also Friday.
A war play by Hubert Griffith, set in WW1. Shown as a ITV Play of the Week in 1963. This play opened The Duchess Theartre in 1929.
Character in a series of stories set in Greyfriars School, originally published in the boys weekly story magazine 'The Magnet'.
Character created by Charles Dickens in his novel Oliver Twist, first published 1838.
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