Oliver Twist The alternative title, "The Parish Boy's Progress", alludes to Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress", as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, "A Rake's Progress" and "A Harlot's Progress". In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own youthful experiences
All American Boy (novel) One day, his father follows Wally to Zandy's house, confronts him, and makes Wally tell the police. Zandy is arrested and ends up in jail. Returning to see his mother and wanting to apologise to Zandy, he meets with the old man, now close to death, who forgives him. Wally also meets Donald Kyrwinski, Dee, a 16-year-old gay boy. All American Boy (novel) All American Boy is a novel by William J. Mann. Fourteen-year-old Walter (Wally) Day was a good son, the smartest boy in his class, an archetypal "all-American boy" growing up in the 1970s. Twenty years later, Wally’s