TY - BOOK AU - Dickens,Charles AU - Cruikshank,George TI - Oliver Twist, Vol. 1 (of 3) 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 2014-12-04; 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47529 ER -