Oliver Twist

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. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English; from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.