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
Character created by Charles Dickens in his novel Oliver Twist, first published 1838.
A character in Charles Dickens' sketches by Boz "The Bloomsbury Christening".
Children's comic strip character. Created by the artist Mary Tourtel. In 1935, when her eyesight started failing the stories and illustrations were taken over by Alfred Bestall. An annual of Rupert...
One of Charles Dickens characters from David Copperfield (1850), based on Dickens' own father.
Hercule Poirot, the all-knowing Belgian detective appeared in Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
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