Oliver Twist - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author:Charles Dickens, Martin Jarvis (Narrator) Martin Jarvis reads Oliver Twist. — 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 wi... more »th an array of memorable characters.