about charles dickens and its novel oliver twist.

1. (1812 – 1870)

2.  Born :- 7 February 1812 in Landport, Hampshire, England
 Died :- 9 June 1870 (aged 58) in Higham, Kent, England
 Occupation :- writer
 Nationality :- British
 Notable works :- Oliver twist
the Pickwick papers
David Copperfield
hard times

3. Charles John Huffam Dickens
 he was an English writer and social critic.
 He is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
 His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime.
 by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius.
 His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
 Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors’ prison.
 he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction
articles.
 lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's
rights.

4.  Oliver twist is a great novel by Charles dickens.
 It was published as a serial 1837 -1839.
 The story is about an orphan Oliver twist.
 It is a social novel.
 Its illustrator is George Cruikshank.

7.  Oliver is an orphan child. His mother died giving birth to Oliver.
 He spends his first years in the asylum Mrs. Mann. Like the other
children in the orphanage, Oliver suffers constantly hungry.
 He was Hidden in the Woods, tired and hungry, he meets Jack Dawkins,
who offers him a place to sleep in London.
 Oliver is in the midst of a band of poster boys, led by the evil Fagin.
 Oliver is driven and persecuted by limes, courtyards and alleys in
London.
 Oliver meets a woman named Nancy, who earns his living on the street.

8.  Oliver Twist – an orphan
 Fagin – criminal boss of a gang of young boys
 Nancy – a prostitute
 Rose Maylie – Oliver's maternal aunt
 Mr. Brownlow – a kindly gentleman who takes
Oliver in
 Monks – a sickly criminal, a cohort of Fagin
 Bill Sikes – a professional burglar
 Agnes Fleming – Oliver's mother
 Mr. Leeford – Oliver's and Monks's father
 Mr. Losberne – Mrs. Maylie's family doctor
 Harry Maylie – Mrs. Maylie's son
 The Artful Dodger – Fagin's most adept
pickpock
 Charlotte – the Sowerberrys' maid
 Toby Crackit – an associate of Fagin and Sikes
 Mrs. Bedwin – Mr. Brownlow's housekeeper
 Monks's mother – an heiress
 Mr. Sowerberry – an undertaker
 Mrs. Sowerberry – Mr. Sowerberry's wife
 Mrs. Mann – superintendent of Oliver's
workhouse
 Bet – a prostitute
 Mr. Fang – a magistrate
 Duff and Blathers – two incompetent
policemen
 Tom Chitling – one of Fagin's gang members

9. Povertyand social class
Poverty is a prominent concern
in Oliver Twist. Throughout the
novel, Dickens enlarged on this
theme, describing slums so decrepit
that whole rows of houses are on
the point of ruin.
Oliver, an innocent child, is trapped
in a world where his only options
seem to be the workhouse, a life of
crime symbolized by Fagin's gang, a
prison, or an early grave.