“Please, sir, I want some more.” When Oliver runs away from a workhouse and is taken in by a group of pickpockets and thieves, he finds himself plunged into a dark criminal underworld. Fagin, the Artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and kind-hearted Nancy all play their parts as Oliver struggles to survive and find his real family. A rich and unrivalled look at London poverty from arguabl…
Dickens's second novel is a scalding indictment of child labor and the English Poor Laws, centering on the travails of an innocent child Orphaned at birth and abandoned to the hardships of the workhouse, Oliver Twist lives a grueling life of poverty. Desperate to escape his heartless tormenters, he runs away to start a better life in London but, once there, he is befriended by a young pickpocke…
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