Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens / World Literature Classics / Illustrated with doodles

  One of the masterpieces of the written world. A must-read.

• Illustrated with doodles
• Complete and unabridged

  A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne.

  The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.