Oliver Twist
Edition: Reissued abridged ed. (11)
Series: Puffin Classics
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780140368147
Copyright date: 1994
First sentence: Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, it boasts of one which is common to most towns, great or small, to wit, a workhouse; and in his workhouse was born the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to this book.
Description: Until he is nine, Oliver spend.s his life in a workhouse orphanage where he becomes notorious for daring to ask for more foocl. When he runs away to London, he falls into the company of a gang of pickpockets including Fagin, Bill Sikes and the Artful Dodger. Oliver's future looks uncertain, until a mysterious plot against hiru i.s unravelled by the kind Mr Brownlow. 

This epic story has been specially abridged for Puffin Classics.