Oliver Twist - Wordsworth Classics Author:Charles Dickens A pauper's child reared in a workhouse, Oliver serves an apprenticeship in a loveless house. Despairing, he runs away and is befriended by a gang of young pickpockets who offer him the only welcome he has ever known. Falling under the influence of villainous company, the young Oliver struggles to escape from a life of poverty and crime, and find... more » the love he longs for.« less