Who wrote the novel 'Oliver Twist'?

Charles Dickens wrote the novel Oliver Twist. Its full title, Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress, identifies the work as one of Dickens’s earliest major novels.

The story was originally published in serial form from 1837 to 1839 in the periodical Bentley’s Miscellany, which Dickens edited for part of its run. It follows the orphan Oliver, whose mistreatment in a workhouse leads him into London’s criminal underworld before he encounters people who offer protection and help.

Dickens used the novel to criticize poverty, child exploitation, workhouse conditions, and the harsh treatment of the poor in Victorian England. The famous request for “more” is connected to Oliver’s experience in the workhouse, though the novel’s social criticism extends far beyond that single scene.

Readers sometimes confuse Dickens with Mark Twain, another major novelist, or with William Makepeace Thackeray, his Victorian contemporary. Dickens also wrote A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities, but Oliver Twist is distinctly his work.