Oliver Twist The Parish Boy's Progress Author:Charles Dickens Oliver Twist is the second novel by Charles Dickens. It explores the life of the poor children in and around London. Olivers mother dies in child birth and Oliver spends his first nine years in a baby farm as provided by the English -Poor Law- but then he is taken to a work house where he is over worked and under fed. When he asks for more food ... more »he is considered ungrateful and sold to an undertaker.« less