Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 creator Cruikshank, George 1792-1878 text utu 2014 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Oliver Twist, Vol. 1 (of 3)" by Charles Dickens is a novel originally published serially from 1837 to 1839. An orphan escapes his brutal workhouse existence only to fall into London's criminal underworld, where a gang of child pickpockets operates under the sinister Fagin. As Oliver struggles between criminality and respectability, mysterious figures conspire to hide his true identity. This pioneering social novel exposes the cruel treatment of orphans and the dark reality of child exploitation in Victorian England. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist Release date is 2014-12-04 Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Original publication data not identified Orphans -- Fiction London (England) -- Fiction Bildungsromans Boys -- Fiction Criminals -- Fiction Kidnapping victims -- Fiction PR Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47529 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47529 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134107.0 47529