A boy born in a workhouse asks for more, is sold to an undertaker, runs to London and falls in with the Artful Dodger, Fagin and Bill Sikes. Dickens’s second novel is the one in which his comedy and his rage first work together, and the murder of Nancy is the scene he later killed himself reading aloud.
The novel that put the Victorian poor in front of the Victorian public. Download the free EPUB.