Oliver Twist

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literary work novel

Oliver Twist is Charles Dickens's classic 1838 novel about an orphan boy who endures hardship in workhouses and among criminals in Victorian England while seeking love, identity, and justice.

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Label Occurrences
Oliver Twist canonical 16
Oliver Twist (novel) 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work ⓘ
novel ⓘ
adaptedAs film ⓘ
musical ⓘ
stage play ⓘ
television series ⓘ
alsoKnownAs The Parish Boy’s Progress ⓘ
author Charles Dickens ⓘ
completedIn 1839 ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
criticizes Poor Laws ⓘ
workhouse system ⓘ
featuresCharacter Bill Sikes ⓘ
Fagin ⓘ
Monks ⓘ
Mr. Brownlow ⓘ
Mr. Bumble ⓘ
Nancy ⓘ
The Artful Dodger ⓘ
firstPublicationForm serialisation ⓘ
firstPublishedIn Bentley's Miscellany ⓘ
surface form: Bentley’s Miscellany
form prose fiction ⓘ
genre Bildungsroman ⓘ
crime fiction ⓘ
social criticism ⓘ
social novel ⓘ
hasIllustrationsBy George Cruikshank ⓘ
influenced later social problem novels ⓘ
literaryMovement Victorian literature ⓘ
mainCharacter Oliver Twist (character) ⓘ
narrativePerspective third-person narration ⓘ
notableAdaptation Oliver! ⓘ
surface form: Oliver! (1968 film)

Oliver! ⓘ
surface form: Oliver! (musical)
originalLanguage English ⓘ
partOf Victorian canon ⓘ
publicationYear 1838 ⓘ
publisher Richard Bentley ⓘ
settingPeriod Victorian era ⓘ
settingPlace England ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form: London
theme charity and hypocrisy ⓘ
child labor ⓘ
class inequality ⓘ
crime ⓘ
identity ⓘ
orphanhood ⓘ
poverty ⓘ
social injustice ⓘ
timeOfFirstSerialisation 1837 ⓘ

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Oliver Twist (TV, 1999) → basedOn → Oliver Twist ⓘ
Oliver Twist (TV, 1999) → titleCharacter → Oliver Twist ⓘ
Oliver Twist (TV, 1999) → adaptationOf → Oliver Twist ⓘ
this entity surface form: Oliver Twist (novel)
Oliver Twist (TV, 1999) → mainCharacter → Oliver Twist ⓘ
Rafferty Law → playedCharacter → Oliver Twist ⓘ
David Lean → notableWork → Oliver Twist ⓘ
Alec Guinness → notableWork → Oliver Twist ⓘ
Bangalee → notableWork → Oliver Twist ⓘ
Charles Dickens Museum → notableWorkWrittenAtHouse → Oliver Twist ⓘ
Oliver! → basedOn → Oliver Twist ⓘ
Oliver! → mainCharacter → Oliver Twist ⓘ
The Pickwick Papers → followedBy → Oliver Twist ⓘ
Catherine Thomson Hogarth → spouseNotableWork → Oliver Twist ⓘ
Bentley's Miscellany → notableWorkPublished → Oliver Twist ⓘ
Bentley's Miscellany → firstPublicationOf → Oliver Twist ⓘ
Oliver Twist (2005 film) score → basedOn → Oliver Twist ⓘ
this entity surface form: Oliver Twist (novel)
Oliver Twist (2005 film) score → associatedWithCharacter → Oliver Twist ⓘ
John Howard Davies → notableRole → Oliver Twist ⓘ