Charles John huffam Dickens , was a English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Vitorian area.
Oliver Twist is a child of unknown parentage born in a warehouse and brought up under cruel conditions to which pauper children were formerly exposed , the tyranny at whose hands he especially suffers being bumble , the parish beadle. After an experience of an unhappy apparenticeship , he runs away, reaches London , and falls into the hands of a gang of thieves.