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Download Solution PDFWho among the following is the author of the novel 'Oliver Twist'?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Charles Dickens.
Key Points
- Charles Dickens is the author of the novel 'Oliver Twist'.
- Charles Dickens’s (1812-1870) second novel, originally published in serial parts 1837-39, and as a three volume edition in 1838.
- Dickens was deeply disturbed by the harsh Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.
- Subtitled 'The Parish Boy’s Progress', Oliver Twist conveys concerns about the impact of poverty and the flaws of the workhouse system.
- Oliver, an orphan, spends his early years in grim institutions.
- After causing consternation by requesting more food, he is apprenticed to an undertaker, but absconds and becomes part of a pickpocket gang, controlled by the manipulative Fagin.
- One of the author’s motives was to counter the sensational and glamorous depiction of criminals in ‘Newgate’ fiction, a popular genre of the 1830s.
Additional Information
| Authors | Books |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |
| EM Forster | A Passage to India |
| Thomas Hardy | The Poor Man and the Lady, |
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