Oliver Twist: Dickens on Dickens (Unabridged‪)‬

Gerald Dickens, great, great grandson of Charles Dickens, reads this traditional tale.

Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. The time honoured story is about the orphan Oliver Twist, who escapes from a workhouse and travels to London where he meets the renowned Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin, naively unaware of their unlawful activities.

It is likely that Dickens's own early youth as a child labourer contributed to the story's development.