Treasure Trove of World Literary Masterpieces -- Oliver Twist (Youth Edition) (Youth Edition)

Author: Charles Dickens
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: The protagonist is an illegitimate child of a wealthy family in high society. His young mother, having long been deprived of love, endured hardships and the anguish of loneliness alone. After giving birth to him, she passed away. Upon arriving in the world, he had never experienced maternal love or the warmth of a family, and lived a hellish and miserable life in the so-called charitable institution of the poorhouse. At the age of nine, he was sent to work as an apprentice in a coffin shop. It reflects the struggle between good and evil, beauty and ugliness, justice and injustice, praises the inherent integrity and kindness in human nature, and exposes and critiques the hypocrisy of some charitable institutions and the arbitrary rule of the police in Britain at that time.