Oliver Twist
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 457
Copyright date: 1957
Description: Oliver Twist is a powerful story of crime, poverty and vio- lence. It is one of Charles Dickens' most widely read novels.

Oliver was born and reared in a workhouse and apprenticed to a brutal master. He ran away to London. Starving, he was taken from the streets by Fagin, a master criminal who corrupted homeless boys by teaching them the tricks of a professional thief.

Oliver's early career and the events that lead to his rescue present every facet of the genius that has made Charles Dickens perhaps the greatest of all English novelists.