Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is a powerful story about poverty, justice, and survival in a broken society. Its theme is ...

Oliver Twist was the first of Dickens’s romances which was subjected to the revision of his dear friend and biographer, John Forster, an accomplished man of letters, recently deceased.

Oliver Twist is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, ... As in, short for Oliver, ain'’’t it? Got to have a moniker, now we'’’re muckers.

Oliver Twist was filmed in England in 1948, but its American release was held up for three years due to the allegedly anti-Semitic portrayal of the duplicitous Fagin.