literaturelovers (8)in #nancy • 8 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #6/214It is wonderful how Virtue turns from dirty stockings, and how Vice, married to ribbons and a little gay attire, changes her name, as wedded ladies do, and becomes Romance.But…literaturelovers (8)in #dickens • 13 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #5/214PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION 1867Once upon a time it was held to be a coarse and shocking circumstance that some of the characters in these pages are chosen from the…literaturelovers (8)in #sanitary • 17 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #4/214PREFACE TO THE FIRST CHEAP EDITIONAt page 267 of this present edition of Oliver Twist there is a de scription of “the filthiest, the strangest, the most extraordi nary of the…literaturelovers (8)in #mistress • 22 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #3/214No less consulting my own taste than the manners of the age, I endeavoured, while I painted it in all its fallen and degraded aspects, to banish from the lips of the lowest…literaturelovers (8)in #thief • 28 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #2/2144I ask myself whether any man will be deterred from turning thief because of his being sentenced to death and because of the existence of Peachum and Lockit; and remembering the…literaturelovers (8)in #tale • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist #1/214PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION“Some of the author’s friends cried, ‘Lookee, gendemen, the man is a villain; but it is Nature for all that’; and the young critics of the age, the…