Oliver Twist

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There is considerable power and a close observation of life manifested in this work. The description of London life in the brilliant age of Fox, Pitt, and Sheridan, (whose portraits are incidentally sketched by the author with a vigorous hand,) is remarkable for its fidelity and liveliness. It is an amusing and clever story.”-Atlas. ” This is a well-drawn picture of life, and obviously from real personages and circumstances. Indeed, we recognise both, as must be the case with any one familiar with London for the last forty years. Bankers, men of fashion, fox and fortune-hunters, &c. &c., figure in the page, and the various turns in their fortunes and misfortunes furnish ample matter for the novelist, of which he has availed himself so as to excite considerable interest, and bring forth singular characters, as well as illustrate the conduct of worldlings in a striking manner.

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