5/8/2023 0 Comments Oliver & twist![]() ![]() ![]() "Oliver Twist was originally conceived as a satire on the new poor law of 1834 which herded the destitute and the helpless into harshly run union workhouses, and which was perceived by Dickens as a monstrously unjust and inhumane piece of legislation (he was still fiercely attacking it in Our Mutual Friend in 1865). Oliver Twist was first published serially between February 1837 and April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany, and as a three-volume book by Richard Bentley in 1838 (six months before the initial serialization was complete). This single volume was substantially revised by Dickens, who had bought back his copyright from the original publisher Bentley many of his revisions were in the direction of a more dramatic rendering of the text, in light of his experience of public readings. ![]() First one-volume edition of Dickens's second novel. ![]()
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