Book description
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'Oliver Twist has asked for more!'
Fleeing the workhouse, Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the
Artful Dodger and caught up with a group of pickpockets in London. As he
tries to free himself from their clutches he becomes immersed in the
seedy underbelly of the Capital, amongst criminals, prostitutes and the
homeless. Dickens scathing attack on the cruelness of Victorian Society
features some of his most memorable and enduring characters, including
innocent Oliver himself, the Artful Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sikes and Nancy.
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience
influenced 'Oliver Twist', the second of his fourteen major novels,
which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in
Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge
popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.
