Oliver Twist

Dickens’s fierce and unforgettable novel of poverty, criminal exploitation, and moral endurance in Victorian London.

At a glance Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens’s most enduring and forceful novels: a story of… From the workhouse to the streets of London, Dickens traces the journey of an orphan… The novel combines sharp social criticism with some of Dickens’s most memorable… Oliver’s path crosses thieves, schemers, bullies, rescuers, and hypocrites, and the…

Why the novel endures

About this book A classic Dickens novel following orphaned Oliver through the workhouse, the London underworld, and a brutal social system that tests innocence at every turn.