Oliver Twist
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Oliver Twist is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in serial form between 1837 and 1839. It was his second novel and has been adapted many times, including the musical Oliver!. Oliver, an orphan raised in a workhouse, runs away to London and falls in with a gang of child pickpockets led by Fagin and the Artful Dodger. Dickens exposes the cruelty of the Poor Laws and the criminal underworld through characters like the violent Bill Sikes and the doomed Nancy.
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