num_pages: 108
description: One of Dickens' most popular and moving novels, OLIVER TWIST deals with a world Dickens himself knew only too well -- a world of debtors, prisons, alms houses and poverty. Oliver is born in a workhouse. Apprenticed to an undertaker, he runs away to London where the "Artful Dodger," Jack Dawkins, takes the starving boy into a den of thieves. Among this motley crew, Oliver meets the sinister Bill Sikes, his pitiful and tragic Nancy and the master criminal, Fagin.
language: English
title: Oliver Twist
titlecomplete: Oliver Twist
characters: Artful Dodger, Oliver Twist, Rose Maylie
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, Literature, Victorian, Classic Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 377557
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: CityRead London
publisher: New Dawn Books