Society

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

An orphan asks for more soup and is punished for the audacity of it, then falls in with a gang of pickpockets who are, at minimum, honest about what they are. Dickens wrote it to make polite society look directly at a workhouse it preferred not to. It remains uncomfortable reading, on purpose.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 10 hr 40 min

Where to find it

On the Society shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #730. In the public domain in the United States.