Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The story of Oliver Twist - stranded, and set upon by fiendish and difficulty from his to begin with breath - stunned perusers when it was distributed. After running absent from the workhouse and self important beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself baited into a sanctum of cheats inhabited by striking and important characters - the Shrewd Dodger, horrendous burglar Bill Sikes, his canine Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all observed over by tricky master-thief Fagin. Combining components of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and well known acting, Dickens made an completely unused kind of fiction, blistering in its prosecution of a brutal society, and invaded by an extraordinary sense of risk and mystery.