Oliver Twist 1st Edition  (English, Paperback, Charles Dickens, Katharine Lang)

Oliver Twist (1838) is Charles Dickens's second novel. It is the first English novel to centre on a child throughout. The book was first published as a serial in monthly instalments. Oliver Twist is known for the manner in which Dickens has portrayed the criminals giving all the unpleasant and ugly details of their lives drawing public attention to the social evils of the time which dictated that poor people should work in the workhouses besides recruiting children to work as criminals. This went unnoticed in a society where rich people were selfish and made no effort to improve the lives of the criminals and their children. Dickens mocks with utter sarcasm throughout the novel, hinting at the hypocrisy that prevailed in the society.