PostsCommentsPayoutsliteraturelovers (8)in #mistress • yesterday[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 • 7 days 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 • last month[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…