This is the second volume of the original three-volume publication of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist (1837-39), one of the first novels in English to feature a child as its central protagonist. The story follows the orphan Oliver through London’s criminal underworld — populated by the sinister Fagin, the brutal Bill Sikes, and the tragic Nancy — as Dickens indicts the workhouse system and the brutal treatment of the poor.
Oliver Twist was among the most socially conscious novels of its era and helped shape public attitudes toward poverty and child welfare. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg and read one of Victorian literature’s most urgent and enduring works.