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
Little Boy Lost (novel) is the one." and "This is haunting stuff." Little Boy Lost (novel) Little Boy Lost is a dramatic novel by Marghanita Laski that was published in 1949. It was republished in 2001 by Persephone Books. The novel focuses on Hilary Wainwright, an English man, on the search for his lost son in the ruins of post-war France. A motion picture version of the same title starring Bing Crosby was released in 1953. Kirkus Reviews found "Little Boy Lost" "An inescapably affecting story where sentiment is edged by bitterness." while Nicholas Lezard of the Guardian wrote "If you like a novel