A review by musicsaves
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

5.0

FIRST LINE REVIEW: "Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat; inasmuch as it can be f no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter." Oh, Dickens. Gotta love him. Through melodramatic twist and turn he can spin a yarn like few others. And although the story of Oliver Twist was already well-known and beloved by me (thanks to the musical), I still relished this original telling of that tale.