A review by daja57
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

3.0

I think this is one of the weakest of Dickens's novel. My fundamental problem was that I was unable to believe that a lad brought up as an orphan in a workhouse would have been such a nice little boy. Dickens thought that because Oliver is of 'gentle' birth his 'innate nobility' would shine through the grime of his upbringing. I disagree.

Of course it is peopled with some wonderfully eccentric caricatures but that doesn't make it a novel.