GajimaruClassics.Oliver Twist
On the coverOver London by Rail, Gustave Doré, 1872
Oliver Twist
A workhouse orphan asks for more, is cast out, and falls in with a London gang of child pickpockets ruled by the sinister Fagin, while the secret of his true parentage waits to be uncovered. Dickens’s cry against poverty and cruelty.
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The template for every orphan-in-the-underworld story, with a rogues’ gallery, Fagin, the Artful Dodger, Bill Sikes, that no reader forgets. Dickens finding his conscience and his crowd.
SettingLondon, 1830s
The London of workhouses and rookeries under the new Poor Law, where a child could vanish into crime or the grave with no one to answer for it.