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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.
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Oliver Twist is a deeply affecting and widely beloved novel by the acclaimed English author Charles Dickens. It tells the story of a young orphan boy who is born into a life of poverty and misfortune. Throughout the novel, Dickens sheds light on the cruel treatment of orphans and the exploitation of children in 19th-century England.

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