Oliver Twist

Description

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and as a three-volume book in 1838. 
The titular character is born an orphan and is forced into unjust and cruel situations from child farms to workhouses to a life of crime. He is constantly thrown into trusting the wrong adults. The boy’s innocence reveals the extreme suffering of the poor in Victorian England.