Born in poverty in a workhouse in an unnamed town, Oliver Twist escapes to London only to find himself amid a gang of pickpockets run by the Artful Dodger. The more he tries to free himself from his misery, the more he is entrapped in a world inhabited by criminals and the homeless like himself and so begins an immortal Dickensian story in which Dickens creates some of his most loved and abhorred characters such as Oliver Twist himself, Bumble, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes and the Artful Dodger. Oliver Twist first began appearing in monthly installments in Bentley s Miscellany in February 1837 and continued till April 1839. It was Dickens second novel after Pickwick Papers and through a never-ending battle between Good and Evil it brings to light the hypocrisies of the Victorian Age.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Abandoned at an early age, Oliver Twist is forced to live in a dark and dismal London workhouse lorded over by awful Mr. Bumble who cheats the boys of their meager rations! Desperate but determined, Oliver makes his escape. But what he discovers in the harsh streets of London’s underworld makes the workhouse look like a picnic. Penniless and alone, he is lured into a world of crime by the wily Fagin–the nefarious mastermind of a gang of pint-sized pickpockets.
Will a life of crime pay off for young Oliver? Or will it earn him a one-way ticket to the gallows?
