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Oliver Twist
The Author
Charles Dickens, the greatest representative(代表) of English critical realism (批判现实主义),was born in 1812 at Portsmouth. When he was four years old, his family moved to Chatham, and the five years he spent there were the happiest of all his boyhood. One day, he found a pile of English novels, which aroused his curiosity. Now the key to the treasure-house of literature had been put in his hand. In 1821 the Dickens family moved to a poor quarter in London. Mr. Dickens was heavily in debt and did not know which way to turn for money. The 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory in the East End of London Charles Dickens visited American in the fall of 1867 . All this had a deep influence on Dickens’ thought and work in after years.
Representative works
《荒凉山庄》Bleak House
《艰难时世》Hard Times
《双城记》A Tale of Two Cities
《远大前程》Great Expectations
《大卫·科波菲尔》David Copperfield
《小杜丽》Little Dorrit
Introduction
This novel tells the story of an orphan boy, whose adventures provides a description of the lower depths of London. Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in 1830s, England. His mother, whose name no one knows is found on the street and dies just after Oliver’s birth. He is brought up in the workhouse where he and other orphans are maltreated and constantly starved. One day, because Oliver asks for more gruel, he is dent to an undertaker to work as an Claypole makes ments about Oliver’s mother and Oliver is unable to bear it, so he attacks him and run away to London. There he falls into the hands of a gang of thieves headed by old Jew Fagin. In the thieve’s den Oliver is taught the skill of pocking and stealing and is forced to steal. He is rescued for a time by the kind-hearted Mr Brownlow. But Nancy and other gang members find him and bring him back .It finally turns out that a mysterious man Monks wants to make the boy a Oliver is forced to help a burglar,Bill Sikes, in a burglary. In the course of it, Oliver i