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
The Fool's Progress The Fool's Progress The Fool's Progress is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1988. The book is a semi-autobiographical novel about a man, Henry Holyoak Lightcap, who refuses to submit to modern commercial society. Unlike Abbey's most famous fiction work, "The Monkey Wrench Gang", which concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the American Southwest, "The Fool's Progress" focuses on the journey of Henry across America. Edward Abbey considered it to be his "fat masterpiece." It was the final book published in his lifetime; his final novel was "Hayduke Lives". After