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
Dragon Boy (novel) adventures in the story were "all good rollicking fun with terrible jokes about knights in armour" or "appalling parodies". "The Junior Bookshelf"'s D. A. Young stated "Dick King-Smith makes the most of the satirical possibilities offered by attributing the foibles of the class system to the world of dragons." A. Fisher from "Books for Your Children" likened "Dragon Boy" to other stories by the author, adding that it is well written. Dragon Boy (novel) Dragon Boy is a children's novel by British author Dick King-Smith, first published in 1993. The novel is about John, a young orphan in the Middle