Oliver Twist - Puffin Classics Author:Charles Dickens, Robin Waterfield (Editor) Dickens' Twist, a pauper's child reared in a workhouse serves an apprenticeship in a loveless home. He runs away and is befriended by a gang of young pickpockets who offer him the only welcome he's ever known. Oliver Twist is one of Dickens' greatest achievements, a vivid depiction of London's outlaw society with an ... more »array of memorable characters.« less