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.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Oliver Twist
One of Charles Dickens characters from A Christmas Carol (1843).
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Bookshop in Arnold Bennett's 1923 novel "Riceyman Steps" set in Clerkenwell.
Character created by Charles Dickens in his novel Oliver Twist, first published 1838.
Originated in France as an album and then briefly as a show. Cameron Mackintosh got hold of it and the English show opened at the Barbican Centre in 1985. Moved first to the Palace and then on 3 A...
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