Oliver Twist. Чарльз Диккенс

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СКАЧАТЬ so there was an element of truth, but Dickens’ boiled them down to amplify the traits he was most interested in and remove the traits superfluous to literary requirements. In effect, Dickens’ Victorian world is a cartoon, where the more mundane, mediocre and prosaic details serve only as a neutral backdrop, while the colourful characters are allowed to distract the attention.

      It can be no coincidence that Dickens himself was an accomplished performer. He was the William Shakespeare of the Victorian age, both writing and taking to the stage as a storyteller. This makes it easy to understand why his characters had such pronounced identities, because Dickens would mentally assume different roles whilst story telling, both on paper and when treading the boards.

      As any parent or teacher will attest, it is quite necessary to exaggerate characters with gestures and voices while story telling to capture the imagination of the audience and leave no confusion about who is who. This is exactly what Dickens was doing, so that his version of the Victorian world became one of overblown polarity: villains and do-gooders, the devout and the morally fallen, the wealthy and the poor, the beautiful and the ugly, the selfish and the selfless. Those who fall ‘somewhere between’ truly are the silent majority in Dickensian Britain.

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      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

History of Collins

Life & Times

CHAPTER 1 Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was born, and of the circumstances attending his birth

CHAPTER 2 Treats of Oliver Twist’s growth, education, and board

CHAPTER 3 Relates how Oliver Twist was very near getting a place, which would not have been a sinecure

CHAPTER 4 Oliver, being offered another place, makes his first entry into public life

CHAPTER 5 Oliver mingles with new associates. Going to a funeral for the first time, he forms an unfavourable notion of his master’s business

CHAPTER 6 Oliver, being goaded by the taunts of Noah, rouses into action, and rather astonishes him

CHAPTER 7 Oliver continues refractory

CHAPTER 8 Oliver walks to London. He encounters on the road a strange sort of young gentleman

CHAPTER 9 Containing further particulars concerning the pleasant old gentleman, and his hopeful pupils

CHAPTER 10 Oliver becomes better acquainted with the characters of his new associates; and purchases experience at a high price. Being a short, but very important chapter, in this history

CHAPTER 11 Treats of Mr. Fang the police magistrate; and furnishes a slight specimen of his mode of administering justice

CHAPTER 12 In which Oliver is taken better care of than he ever was before. And in which the narrative reverts to the merry old gentleman and his youthful friends

CHAPTER 13 Some new acquaintances are introduced to the intelligent reader, connected with whom various pleasant matters are related, appertaining to this history

CHAPTER 14 Comprising further particulars of Oliver’s stay at Mr. Brownlow’s, with the remarkable prediction which one Mr. Grimwig uttered concerning him, when he went out on an errand

       CHAPTER 15 Showing how very fond of Oliver Twist, the merry old Jew and Miss Nancy were

       CHAPTER 16 Relates what became of Oliver Twist, after he had been claimed by Nancy

       CHAPTER 17 Oliver’s destiny continuing unpropitious, brings a great man to London to injure his reputation

       CHAPTER 18 How Oliver passed his time in the improving society of his reputable friends

       CHAPTER 19 In which a notable plan is discussed and determined on

       CHAPTER 20 Wherein Oliver is delivered over to Mr. William Sikes

       CHAPTER 21 The Expedition

       CHAPTER 22 The Burglary

       CHAPTER 23 Which contains the substance of a pleasant conversation between Mr. Bumble and a lady; and shows that even a beadle may be susceptible on some points

       CHAPTER 24 Treats of a very poor subject. But it is a short one, and may be found of importance in this history

       CHAPTER 25 Wherein this history reverts to Mr. Fagin and company

       CHAPTER 26 In which a mysterious character appears upon the scene; and many things, inseparable from this history, are done and performed

       CHAPTER 27 Atones for the unpoliteness of a former chapter; which deserted a lady, most unceremoniously

       CHAPTER 28 Looks after Oliver, and proceeds with his adventures

       CHAPTER 29 Has an introductory account of the inmates of the house, to which Oliver resorted

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