An inspiring star

In 1838， the second long novel of Charles Dickens Oliver Twist was pub-lished and this soul stirring story which delineates a valiant boy and his constantstruggle with vicious powers eventually stood out and made a deep impression onmany readers' mind. Without too many sophisticate plots and flowery languages，this novel is proved to be one of the most successful books in English literature of19th century. Especially in the aspect of revealing the reality， the realistic wrierDickens authentically presented a miniature of English society to readers. Tomake a relatively thorough and all-around analysis of this book， this essay willbe developed into four parts: plot settings characterization， writing features andtheme.

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