Oliver Twist, de son titre complet en anglais : Oliver Twist, or, The Parish Boy's Progress (Oliver Twist ou Le voyage de l'enfant de la paroisse), l'un des romans les plus universellement connus de Charles Dickens, a été publié en trente-deux feuilletons mensuels dans la revue Bentley's Miscellany, entre février 1837 et avril 1839, juin et octobre 1837 exceptés. L'histoire concerne un orphelin, Oliver Twist, soumis à des privations et des vexations dans l'hospice paroissial (workhouse) où il est né.
Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Twist travels to London, where he meets "The Artful Dodger," a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin. Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid–19th century.
