Read with intensity and comic versatility, Oliver Twist is Dickens" second novel, and the eighth title in Naxos AudioBooks" series of the great works of Charles Dickens. Coming shortly after Pickwick Papers, it is a thrilling study of childhood innocence thrust into the darkly comic world of Fagin, his apprentice the Artful Dodger and their gang of child thieves. Who will help the orphaned Oliver to escape from their clutches and discover his true history? The original story is even more powerful than the musical that popularized it.