Books in English "Oliver Twist" is a novel by the great English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870), which made him famous. The orphan Oliver Twist has endured the most difficult trials. Despite all the hardships and humiliations, the boy retained his purity, the disgusting environment did not spoil his soul - and the happy ending, traditional for English classical literature, is natural here: all the villains are punished, Oliver found his loved ones, regained his name and fortune. . We offer to the attention of readers a slightly shortened unadapted text of the novel, supplied with comments and a dictionary.