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literaturelovers (8)in #bumble • 25 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #15/214
Bumble was at once instructed that Oliver Twist and his indentures were to be conveyed before the magistrate, for signature and approval, that very afternoon.8In pursuance of…
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literaturelovers (8)in #gamfield • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #14/214
Gamfield smiled, too, as he perused the document; for five pounds was just the sum he had been wishing for; and, as to the boy with which it was encumbered, Mr. Gamfield, knowing…
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literaturelovers (8)in #oliver • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #13/214
CHAPTER IIIRelates how Oliver Twist was very near gettinga place, which would not have been a sinecure.For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of…
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literaturelovers (8)in #hungry • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #12/214
The room in which the boys were fed, was a large stone hall, with a copper at one end: out of which the master, dressed in an apron for the purpose, and assisted by one or two…
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literaturelovers (8)in #oliver • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #11/214
Oliver was frightened at the sight of so many gentlemen, which made him tremble: and the beadle gave him another tap behind, which made him cry. These two causes made him answer…
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literaturelovers (8)in #oliver • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #10/214
Bumble!”“I, Mrs. Mann. We name our fondlings in alphabetical order. The last was a S,—Swubble, I named him. This was a T,-Twist, I named him. The next one as comes will be Unwin…
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literaturelovers (8)in #bumble • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #9/214
Bumble, 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…
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literaturelovers (8)in #oliver • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #8/214
CHAPTER 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…
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literaturelovers (8)in #biography • 4 months 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 • 4 months 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 • 4 months 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 • 4 months 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 • 4 months 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 • 5 months ago
[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 • 5 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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