![]() ![]() Oliver is now made to accompany Bill Sikes on a burgling expedition, in the course of which he receives a gun‐shot wound, and comes into the hands of Mrs Maylie and her protégée Rose, by whom he is kindly treated and brought up. He is temporarily rescued by the benevolent Mr Brownlow, but kidnapped by the gang, whose interest in his retention has been increased by the offers of a sinister person named Monks, who has a special interest in Oliver's perversion. Every effort is made to convert Oliver into a thief. ![]() ![]() After experience of an unhappy apprenticeship, he runs away, reaches London, and falls into the hands of a gang of thieves, at the head of which is the old Jew Fagin, and whose other chief members are the burglar Bill Sikes, his mistress Nancy, and ‘the Artful Dodger’, an impudent young pickpocket. Oliver Twist is the name given to a child of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were formerly exposed, the tyrant at whose hands he especially suffers being Bumble, the parish beadle. ![]()
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