Oliver Twist, written by Charles Dickens and first published in serialized form from 1837 to 1839, is aclassic work of Englishiterature that explores the themes of poverty, social injustice and the strugglefor survival in nineteenth-centuryondon. The novel tells the story of Oliver Twist, an orphan boyborn in a workhouse, who faces a series of hardships and encounters a variety of characters fromdifferent social classes and backgrounds.