Quote Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman View Post
Having never previously made it past page three of any Dickens novel, I recently managed, and thoroughly enjoyed, Oliver Twist. The palpable distaste for jewish folk in that book though - oy!
Oddly enough, Dickens considered himself a friend of the Jews and was supposedly horrified that his representation of Fagin might be construed as anti-semitic. Which suggests to me he was taking the píss, because I'm not really sure how you could miss that.

He even had the fella hung at the end for reasons no-one can really make out, ffs!