Oliver Twist: Charles Dickens

The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

`A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none`

Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, Oliver Twist features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous gangmaster Fagin, the menacing thug Bill Sikes, the Artful Dodger and their den of thieves in the grimy London backstreets. Dicken`s novel is both an angry indictment of poverty, and an adventure filled with an air of threat and pervasive evil.

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