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Oliver Twist journeys through childhood, braving loneliness, poverty and cruelty with an innocent heart in Charles Dickens’ timeless classic. Summary of the Book What’s a young boy to do when he’s hungry? Ask for food, obviously. However, at the main workhouse, asking for more gruel leads to cruel and unusual punishment. Oliver Twist, a scrawny orphan is coaxed into asking for a second helping of food by the other boys in the workhouse. He realizes that this is a suicide plan, and sure enough, he is put up for apprenticeship. He hopes his troubles are over, and it looks like they are, seeing as his master is a kindly undertaker. However, the master’s wife hates Oliver. When the master dies, he is cast out and decides to journey to London. There, he runs into a band of misfits led by the ingenious Fagin who trains them at the wonderful skills of pickpocketing and theft. Among those boys is one who Oliver can never forget, the fleetfooted Artful Dodger! About Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was an English novelist, short story writer and social critic. He is best remembered for his prolific writing, and especially the novels: David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol and The Pickwick Papers. Considered the literary juggernaut of his age, Dickens constantly portrayed the poor and orphaned in his novels and stories, and touched upon the poor living situations which were rampant in those days.