An orphan boy falls in with a gang of London thieves led by Fagin before his true parentage and a better life are revealed.
Books mentioned in Oliver Twist (1)
The Newgate Calendar: “'cause it can't come out in the 'dictment; 'cause nobody will never know half of what he was. How will he stand in the Newgate Calendar?”
Books that mention Oliver Twist (22)
Trilby by George du Maurier: “putting his forefinger to the side of his nose, like Noah Claypole in _Oliver Twist_.”
The People of the Abyss by Jack London: “When I asked for two rooms, the sublettees looked at me very much in the manner, I imagine, that a certain personage looked at Oliver Twist when he asked for more.”
John Barleycorn by Jack London: “Unlike Oliver Twist, I was incapable of asking for more.”
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: “"I'd always pictured him as the Artful Dodger in Oliver" / "Dickens doesn't tell us what happened to the Dodger"”
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger: “He's carrying this copy of Oliver Twist and so's she.”
Grant by Ron Chernow: “Grant retained special affection for Dickens, especially The Pickwick Papers, Dombey and Son, Little Dorrit, and Oliver Twist.”
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “Dickens, in his readings of Oliver Twist, would try to make as many women faint as he could: when I heard that I spent a whole vengeful summer rewriting the book so that girls came out top.”
Matilda by Roald Dahl: “Library reading list: "Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens"”
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff: “"Oliver Twist—" "This isn't Oliver Twist," she informed me, with a mirthless laugh.”
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami: “He became obsessed with Dickens after reading Oliver Twist, plowing through every Dickens volume in the library.”
11/22/63 by Stephen King: “Sounds like Oliver Twist, or something.” “No, they were good to him.”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “it has not joined Oliver Twist as popular mythology, and Dickens himself preferred Copperfield”
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell: “God, this is sounding like Oliver Twist.”
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene: “"...like a Russian who believes that the bailiff and the coffin-maker still follow their unchanged vocations in a world where Oliver Twist is somewhere imprisoned in a London cellar asking for more." — following "When Doctor Plarr as a boy read a novel of Dickens..."”
Gai-Jin by James Clavell: “...lost in admiration of the man and his marvelous range of stories, from Oliver Twist more than twenty years ago, through Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield and a dozen others to the riveting Tale of Two Cities.”
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood: “has stated publicly that she is very fond of Charles Dickens, and in especial of Oliver Twist.”
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “an unforgettable hero like Tom Jones, Ivan Karamazov, Madame Bovary, Père Goriot, Anna Karenina, or Oliver Twist”
The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino: Mentioned in discussing Dickens's illustrators, noting Cruikshank's falling-out with Dickens came after this book
Artful by Ali Smith: “It was a Dickens novel, Oliver Twist, the old Penguin edition I'd had at university”
Babel by R. F. Kuang: “He'd bought Robin the three-volume set of Oliver Twist; also chapter epigraph (epigraph)”
Light, Wind and Dreams by Atsushi Nakajima: “Madame Bovary is without doubt a masterpiece. And Oliver Twist, what a childish domestic novel! Yet I think Dickens, who left stories for children, may be more of an adult than Flaubert, who wrote the novel for adults. [auto-translated]”