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literaturelovers (8)in #biography • 3 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #7/214
CHAPTER ITreats of the place whereOliver Twist was born, and of thecircumstances attending his birth.Among other public buildings in a certain town,hwhich for many reasons it…
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literaturelovers (8)in #nancy • 15 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #6/214
It is wonderful how Virtue turns from dirty stockings, and how Vice, married to ribbons and a little gay attire, changes her name, as wedded ladies do, and becomes Romance.But…
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literaturelovers (8)in #dickens • 20 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #5/214
PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION 1867Once upon a time it was held to be a coarse and shocking circumstance that some of the characters in these pages are chosen from the…
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literaturelovers (8)in #sanitary • 24 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #4/214
PREFACE TO THE FIRST CHEAP EDITIONAt page 267 of this present edition of Oliver Twist there is a de scription of “the filthiest, the strangest, the most extraordi nary of the…
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literaturelovers (8)in #mistress • 29 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #3/214
No less consulting my own taste than the manners of the age, I endeavoured, while I painted it in all its fallen and degraded aspects, to banish from the lips of the lowest…
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literaturelovers (8)in #thief • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #2/214
4I ask myself whether any man will be deterred from turning thief because of his being sentenced to death and because of the existence of Peachum and Lockit; and remembering the…
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literaturelovers (8)in #tale • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #1/214
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION“Some of the author’s friends cried, ‘Lookee, gendemen, the man is a villain; but it is Nature for all that’; and the young critics of the age, the…
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