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One of the great novelist's most popular works, Oliver Twist isalso the purest distillation of Dickens's genius. This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away toLondon is a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story.Oliver Twist presents some of the most sinister characters in Dickens: themaster thief, Fagin; the leering Artful Dodger; the murderer, Bill Sikes...along with some of his most sentimental and comical characters. OnlyDickens can give us nightmare and daydream together. According to George Orwell, "in Oliver Twist. . .Dickens attacked Englishinstitutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached. Yet hemanaged to do it without making himself hated, and, more than this, thevery people he attacked have welcomed him so completely that he hasbecome a national institution himself." With an Introduction by Frederick Busch and an Afterword by Edward Le Comte