Oliver Twist: Quick Facts

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The Artful Dodger picking a pocket to the amazement of Oliver Twist (far right); illustration by George Cruikshank for Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (1837–39).

Alec Guinness as Fagin crouches beside John Howard Davies as Oliver Twist in a dimly lit, rough wooden attic in the 1948 film Oliver Twist.

Illustration of Mr. Bumble and Mrs. Corney for Oliver Twist

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