This fiercely comic tale stands in marked??contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick??Papers. Set against London's seedy back??street slums, Oliver Twist is??the saga of a workhouse orphan capt
Named a ""national institution"" by George Orwell, Dickens offers his most popular tale, of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London-a novel of social protest, a morality tale
