It iss a novel written by Charles Dickens

Queen Victoria reigned over Britain from 1837 to 1901

2. the world of criminals

3. the world of the respectable middle class

Poverty drives people to crime

The poor children were obliged to work

1. Upper class: landowners, nobles

2. Middle class: merchants

3. Lower class: laborers working in terrible conditions

In the workhouse the poor children without parents lived in terrible conditions : forced child labour , malnutrition , beatings

At the end Mr Brownlow adopts Oliver, gets his inheritance and the criminals are punished

Oliver is poor boy who knows nothing about his parents

He is brought up in a workhouse

He is sold to an undertaker as an apprentice

he is treated very badly and escapes to London

In London Oliver meets Fagin who teaches him to steal

Oliver is arrested but Mr Brownlow, the man who was robbed by Oliver takes him home

Mr Brownlow discovers that Oliver has noble origins, but he was deceived by his half-brother and he is sold to criminals