Elaine Kirn, Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist (Regents Illustrated Classics) Level B

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Charles Dickens, a nineteenth-century British writer, was closely acquainted with the human misery of London's slum life. In his novel Oliver Twist, a poor orphan becomes the victim of a criminal plot to turn him into a thief, but still manages to survive the squalor and loneliness of London's underworld. Thruogh a complex interweaving of characters and circumstances, Oliver wins friends who help him discover the secret if his true origin.