Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. The most swiftly-moving and unified of Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is famous for its re-creation of the London underworld of pimps, thieves and prostitutes – and especially for the characters of Fagin, Bill Sikes, Nancy and the Artful Dodger. Contrasting them with the orphan Oliver’s friends and family, Dickens combines vivid realism and fairy-tale brilliance in a study of innocence betrayed and then triumphant.