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Oliver Twist (1838) is Charles Dicken's second novel.It is the first English novel to centre on a child throughout.
The book was first published as a serial in monthly instalments.Oliver Twist is known for the manner in which Dickens has portrayed the criminals giving all the unpleasant and ugly details of their lives drawing public attention to the social evils of the time which dicated that poor people should work in the workhouses besides recruiting children to work as criminals.
