Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist (1838) is Charles Dickens' second novel. The book was originally published in Bentley's Miscellany as a serial, in monthly installments that began appearing in the month of February 1837 and continued through April 1839. George Cruikshank[1] provided one steel etching per month to illustrate each installment.

Oliver Twist is the first novel in the English language to center throughout on a child protagonist [2] and is also notable for Dickens' unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives...