Oliver Twist Author:Charles Dickens In a specially adapted version for young readers by Marion Leighton. OLIVER TWIST - After a miserable childhood spent in public workhouses, the lonely, starving and miserable orphan boy, Oliver Twist, runs away when he is barely twelve. Reaching London, Oliver is taken in by a gang of theives and housebreakers led by the evil genius and master... more » criminal, Fagin. Eventually befreiended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver finally learns his true identity, and gains a family and an inheritence.« less