Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist is Charles Dickens’s second novel, first published in monthly parts between 1837 and 1839. It follows a workhouse orphan who runs away to London and falls in with a gang of young pickpockets led by the sinister Fagin. Around Oliver move some of the most vivid figures Dickens ever drew, among them the Artful Dodger, the murderous housebreaker Bill Sikes, and Nancy, whose loyalty and fear pull the story toward its tragic close. Beneath the melodrama sits a sharp attack on the Poor Law, child labour, and the way Victorian society treated its most defenceless members. This free PDF and EPUB edition gives you the complete text of one of the best loved novels in English.