Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers.
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals, and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.
Oliver Twist is a story of a young orphan. His life in the workhouse is lonely and sad. Oliver becomes an apprentice for an undertaker but runs away after he gets into a fight with another apprentice.
Mos vallë ekzistojnë të vërteta të pamëshirshme, që nuk duhet të thuhen? Mos janë më të parapëlqyeshme gënjeshtrat? Dhe, a është vallë dashuria, udhëtimi ynë i vetëm i vërtetë?
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