Oliver Twist: The Parish Boy’s Progress (Illustrated): A Novel

Charles Dickens

Jan 2021 · Animedia Company

About this ebook

Oliver Twist, subtitled The Parish Boy’s Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naïvely unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin.

Oliver Twist is notable for Dickens’s unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives. The book exposed the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London during the Dickensian era. An early example of the social novel, the book calls the public’s attention to various contemporary evils, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children.

The ebook «Oliver Twist» from Animedia Company contains more than 50 black-and-white and color illustrations by George Cruikshank and James Mahoney.

Ratings and reviews

You must read Oliver's story. Dickenson nails so many characters, he makes me laugh, cry, angry where could I intervene, poor Oliver would stand a better chance, by far! Great story. Best Author.

I have been reading it from child hood,and am still not tired of it.and will never be tired of it,bravo to the author he did a great job

So inspirational book, so sad...