📱 eBook en inglés OLIVER TWIST

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boys Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and as a three-volume book in 1838. The story follows the titular orphan, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London, where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin, discovers the secrets of his parentage, and reconnects with his remaining family.Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternative title, The Parish Boys Progress, alludes to Bunyans The Pilgrims Progress as well as the 18th-century caricature series by painter William Hogarth, A Rakes Progress and A Harlots Progress.