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Oliver Twist Summary & Study Guide Description
Oliver Twist Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Oliver Twist Plot Summary
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Chapters One through Nine
The book opens with Oliver's birth in a workhouse, as his unmarried and nameless mother dies. He is soon transferred to an "infant farm," run by Mrs. Mann, who starves the children under her care and pockets the money given to her for their food. Although many of the children die, investigations always determine that the death was "accidental." Oliver lives with her until he is nine, when the parish beadle, Mr. Bumble, arrives to tell her that Oliver is supposed to return to the workhouse. At the workhouse, he gets in trouble for asking for more food. For this audacious behavior, he is locked up, and the workhouse board decides to give five pounds to anyone who will take Oliver as an apprentice and thus relieve the parish of his care.
A chimney sweep, Gamfield, offers to take Oliver but is rejected when a kindly magistrate finds that...
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