g****y 发帖数: 323 | 1 From http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/19/46/frameset.html
One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver
Twist, an early work published 1837-8. Like many of his
later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the
dispossessed and those of the outside of ‘polite’ society.
Oliver himself is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly
there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in
particular by Bumble, a parish council official or ‘beadle
’. The story follows Oliver as he e | b*s 发帖数: 82482 | 2 Actually, you can get many free ebooks from Project Gutenberg.
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