The novel was first published in monthly instalments, from February 1837 to April 1839, in the magazine
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Oliver Twist is born into a life of poverty and misfortune, raised in a workhouse in the fictional town of Mudfog. The children working there receive very little food; after six months, they draw lots, with the loser asking for a… See more

• Oliver Twist – an orphan child whose mother died at his birth
• Mr Bumble – a beadle in the parish workhouse where Oliver was born
• Mrs Mann – the self-centred and greedy superintendent where the infant O… See more

In Oliver Twist, Dickens mixes grim realism with merciless satire to describe the effects of industrialism on 19th-century England and to criticise the harsh new Poor Laws. Oliver, an innocent child, is trapped in a world wher… See more