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.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Oliver Twist
Our picture is one of the illustrations by Peggy Fortnum.
Character in a series of stories set in Greyfriars School, originally published in the boys weekly story magazine 'The Magnet'.
Titular character in the novel by Daniel Defoe published in 1719. See also Friday.
Fictional spy created by Ian Fleming, who first appeared in the novel 'Casino Royale', but see Fleming's page for an alternative origin for Bond. Eleven further novels and two short story collectio...
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