Oliver Twist was Dickens’ second novel, and my first. My grandmother read it to me and my sister when we were young. We loved the part when meek little orphan Oliver, born out of wedlock in a ...

In both Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Allison Epstein’s novel, Fagin the Thief, the word “Jew” appears more than 300 times. But there’s a big difference in how the authors use the word. In Dickens ...

From a reviewer’s perspective, something called “The Artful Dodger” is a no-lose prospect. Such a series will either be a creatively speculative exploration of one of the more memorable characters in ...

LOS ANGELES -- "The Artful Dodger" puts a twist on an old classic. Jack Dawkins, one of Charles Dickens' most famous characters from "Oliver Twist" is back, 15 years after the story left off. In 1850s ...