The boy who asked for more! Born in a poor house, Oliver Twist has nothing going for him in life. Oliver then has a series of encounters with the Artful Dodger, the criminal mastermind Fagin, and ends up joining a criminal gang as a pickpocket. But circumstances also lead him to good people who help him. Where will Oliver’s fate lead him? Read about the twists and turns in Oliver’s coming-of-age story in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist.