One of the best known novels of Charles Dickens, which follows the fate of an orphaned workhouse boy. It has been filmed several times, and was turned into the stage musical (and later film) Oliver! by Lionel Bart.
Dickens' second novel it was published in serial form, 1837-9, and as a three-volume book in 1838.
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Oliver Twist
One of Charles Dickens characters from A Christmas Carol (1843).
Official mascot of the global recession.
Written by Kenneth Grahame, much of it based on a series of letters to he wrote to his son. First published October 1908.
Fictional detective. Created by Margery Allingham. He first appeared in 'The Crime at Black Dudley'. Eight of the subsequent novels featuring him were adapted by the BBC in 1989/90 with Peter Davis...
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