Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by Charles Dickens, and was first published as a serial 1837-9. Oliver Twist, Dickens, is one of the most brilliantly works reveal the genius of an exceptional novelist. A difficult and bitter childhood marked by poverty and imprisonment of his father, and relieved only by reading, marked forever the life of Charles Dickens, who found her literary inspiration. His novels combine realism, humor and extensive knowledge of the marginalized, whose situation continuously denounced. The story of the little Oliver, raised in a hospice, used and abused at a funeral, that the escape route to London is recruited by a gang of thieves who he does not recognize as such, is not only a superb showcase of very famous Dickensian creations (Fagin the leader of the gang of juvenile delinquents, the thief Jack Dawkins, the murderer Sikes, Nancy prostitute, the mysterious Monks, implacable pursuer of Oliver), but a magnificent and thrilling story about the embattled innocence. The various protective finding the hero is on his way we discover the idyllic and sentimental Dickens and thanks to them a web of secrets as dramatic as finally happy.