In the workhouse of a provincial town seventy miles from London a woman with unknown origin gives birth to a boy and dies. The child is named Oliver Twist and put into the workhouse orphanage. When he is nine Oliver gets transferred to the workhouse itself by Mr. Bumble, the beadle. The little Twist dares to ask for more gruel on behalf of the other half-starved children and the authorities decide to put him to a trade. Oliver is apprenticed to Mr. Sowerberry, an undertaker. Another apprentice, Noah Claypole, insults Oliver's dead mother and small Oliver attacks him. Because of the severe punishment by the Sowerberrys Oliver runs away to London. There he meets Jack Dawkins called The Artful Dodger, a member of a pickpocket-gang run by Fagin, a Jew. Oliver
who does not understand that he is among criminals becomes one of Fagin's boys. He gets send out with the Dodger and another boy, Charley Bates. Realizing the criminal actions they take, Oliver runs away under shock. He gets caught and is accused of robbing Mr. Brownlow but a bookstall-keeper has seen the true robbers and exculpates Oliver. Mr. Brownlow decides to take care of Oliver and takes him home with him. For Oliver this is the first time he gets treated with affection. But because while Oliver is free his secrets are in danger, Fagin engages Bill Sykes, a brutal robber and Nancy, a prostitute in love with Sykes to recapture Oliver. Oliver is recruited to help Sykes with a robbery on the house of Mrs. Maylie and her adopted niece Rose Maylie. The th
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