Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

OLIVER TWIST is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who escapes from a workhouse and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal Fagin, naively unaware of their unlawful activities. Twist's innocent nature eventually leads him out of the slums of London, but his past threatens to catch up with him as he tries to build a new life with a loving family.