Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens. He is the most popular novelist of the Victorian Era.

Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.

He was born into a life of poverty and misfortune in a Workhouse in an unnamed town. Orphaned by his mother's death in childbirth and his father's unexplained absence, Oliver is meagres provided for under the terms of the Poor Law  and spends the first nine years of his life living at a Baby farm  in the 'care' of a woman named Mrs. Mann. Oliver is brought up with little food and few comforts. Around the time of Oliver's ninth birthday, Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle, removes Oliver from the baby farm and puts him to work picking and weaving Oakum  at the main workhouse. Oliver, who toils with very little food, remains in the workhouse for six months. One day, the desperately hungry boys decide to draw lots; the loser must ask for another portion of gruel.  The task falls to Oliver, who at the next meal tremblingly comes up forward, bowl in hand, and begs Mr. Bumble for gruel with his famous request: "Please, sir, I want some more".


The story is about a poor orphaned boy and the different mis fortunate he had to go through and in the end of his troublesome journey, manages to find his family.