literaturelovers (8)in #bumble • 3 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #9/214Bumble, the beadle, striving to undo the wicket of the garden-gate.“Goodness gracious! Is that you, Mr. Bumble, sir?” said Mrs. Mann, thrusting her head out of the window in…literaturelovers (8)in #oliver • 13 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #8/214CHAPTER IITreats of Oliver Twist’s growth,education, and board.For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a sys tematic course of treachery and deception. He was…literaturelovers (8)in #biography • 23 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #7/214CHAPTER 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…literaturelovers (8)in #nancy • last month[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #6/214It 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…literaturelovers (8)in #dickens • last month[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #5/214PREFACE 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…literaturelovers (8)in #sanitary • last month[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #4/214PREFACE 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…literaturelovers (8)in #mistress • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #3/214No 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…literaturelovers (8)in #thief • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #2/2144I 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…literaturelovers (8)in #tale • 3 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #1/214PREFACE 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…