Oliver Twist, arguably Dickens’s most famous novel, is partly a criticism of the new Poor Laws and also an exposé of the treatment of orphans in London. Dickens selected the steps on London Bridge to be the setting of the brutal murder of Nancy, the girl who befriends Oliver, by Bill Sykes, the most evil character in the book. The steps immediately became a tourist attraction, and even nowadays on a walking tour of Southwark one will be told about ‘Nancy’s Steps’.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Historical Notes
Bibliography
Also by Mary Hooper
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