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In an ‘Oliver Twist’ prequel, Fagin gets a first name — and the spotlight
In both Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist and Allison Epstein’s novel, Fagin The Thief, the word “Jew” appears more than 300 ...
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Charles Dickens’s Fagin gets rehabilitated, again
What do you do with a problem like Fagin, the petty-thief ringleader and most indelible character in Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist” — and one of the most vicious antisemitic stereotypes ...
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Allison Epstein's 'Fagin the Thief' gives the Oliver Twist character a backstory
Sometimes, there are second chances in literature. Charles Dickens' Fagin, the central scoundrel in his 1838 novel "Oliver Twist," leads a crime ring that exploits hungry orphans to rob ...