Oliver Twist
Classic Fiction · No. 3 — The boy who asked for more.
- Classic Fiction
- 40 min
- Ages 15–99
- 7 chapters
About this audiobook
Born in a workhouse and famous for daring to ask for more gruel, the orphan Oliver runs away to London and falls in with the Artful Dodger and old Fagin's den of child pickpockets — a warm trap he is too innocent to recognize. Arrested for a theft he didn't commit, rescued by the kindly Mr. Brownlow, dragged back by the housebreaker Bill Sikes and the conflicted Nancy, Oliver becomes the center of a mystery about his own name. It is Nancy's courage — carrying the secret to the people who can save him, at the cost of her life — that brings the truth out and gives Oliver a family at last.
Why it's worth a listen
A workhouse orphan famous for daring to ask for more runs away to London and falls in with a den of child pickpockets — a warm trap he is too innocent to see. It is Dickens at his most gripping and big-hearted, and its bravest deed belongs to Nancy, the one person who cannot get out. It turns on a question worth carrying: what keeps a person good when the world is unkind to them?
A question to keep
What keeps a person good when the world is unkind to them?
Chapters
- Introduction
- The Boy Who Asked for More
- The Gentleman in the Greatcoat
- A Glimpse of Heaven and a Pull Back to Earth
- The Dark Window
- Midnight on the Bridge
- A Question to Keep