Oliver Twist (version 7)
Born in a bleak English workhouse, orphan Oliver Twist asks for more gruel and is immediately punished for his presumption. This simple, heartbreaking plea sets in motion a chain of events that will drag the boy through the brutal streets of Victorian London. Oliver falls in with Fagin's pickpocket gang, is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, and ultimately discovers the shocking truth of his aristocratic birth, all while remaining stubbornly, almost impossibly, good. Dickens wields his legendary wit like a blade against the industrial-age poverty and institutional cruelty that defined nineteenth-century England. This is social criticism wrapped in a page-turner, a novel that made its original readers squirm with discomfort even as they devoured each installment. It endures because Oliver's stubborn innocence in the face of systemic corruption still feels like a direct challenge: can we remain good in a world designed to break us?
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