Thanks to its colorful cast of characters and gritty portrayal of street life in Victorian London, Dickens` Oliver Twist has captured readers` hearts for more than 150 years. Today`s children will love it too. Oliver, a poor orphan, escapes the miserable workhouse where he was born only to fall into the clutches of a band of pickpockets led by the odious Fagin. Yet no amount of cruelty can destroy his and through his goodness, he finds salvation.