Oliver Twist /
Charles Dickens.
- London : Penguin, 1994.
- 511 p. ; 19 cm.
- Penguin popular classics .
Dickens's classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England's Poor Laws. Oliver begins life in the workhouse, graduates to the criminal underworld of London and learns to survive.