A review by stephilica
Oliver Twist [Adaptation] by Charles Dickens, Les Martin

This book alternates between poignantly dark humor and heart-wrenching emotion. It's a poetic story of justice and how environment and morality do not define each other. It shows its age slightly in regards to the amount of fainting, random outbursts of crying, and dramatically reaching for the light... but despite that, the prose is masterful, and Oliver and Nancy are very sweet (the latter, morally complex) characters.