Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist – is Charles Dickens’s second novel, a classic of English literature first published in serial form from 1837 to 1839. It is a social novel that uses the story of an orphan’s journey through the grim realities of Victorian London to critique the era’s social injustices, particularly the Poor Law of 1834 and child labor. The novel follows the life of Oliver Twist, an orphan born in a parish workhouse where he endures hunger and cruel treatment. After famously asking for “some more” gruel, he is apprenticed to an undertaker but runs away to London after being bullied. In the city, he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin and his associate, the “Artful Dodger”.