TY - BOOK AU - Dickens,Charles AU - Cruikshank,George TI - Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated AV - PR PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Orphans -- Fiction KW - London (England) -- Fiction KW - Bildungsromans KW - Boys -- Fiction KW - Criminals -- Fiction KW - Kidnapping victims -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist; Release date is 2014-08-24; David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated by Charles Dickens" by Charles Dickens is a novel originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839. After escaping a brutal workhouse, orphan Oliver Twist flees to London, where he falls into the hands of Fagin and his gang of child pickpockets. As Oliver struggles to break free from the criminal underworld, mysterious figures work to conceal his true parentage. This early social novel exposes the harsh treatment of orphans in Victorian England through a tale of survival, secrets, and the search for belonging. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://archive.org/details/olivertwist00dickrich/page/n29/mode/2up UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46675 ER -