The story of the orphan, Oliver Twist. Brought up in a workhouse and then apprenticed to an undertaker, he runs away to London. Meeting the charismatic “Artful” Dodger, he then falls in with a gang of backstreet pickpockets run by the sinister Fagin.
Oliver Twist is Charles Dickens’ second novel, originally serialized in Bentley’s Miscellany between 1837 and 1839.
