Oliver Twist (Readings Classics)

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.