id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-898 Oliver Twist - Wikipedia .html text/html 7567 691 74 Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838, before the serialisation ended.[1] The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. While Dickens first reacted defensively upon receiving Davis's letter, he then halted the printing of Oliver Twist, and changed the text for the parts of the book that had not been set, which explains why after the first 38 chapters Fagin is barely called "the Jew" at all in the next 179 references to him.[21] Oliver Twist (1909), the first adaptation of Dickens' novel, a silent film starring Edith Storey and Elita Proctor Otis. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-898.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-898.txt