![]() ![]() Each week, readers waited avidly for the next installment in the tale this partly accounts for the fact that each chapter ends with a "cliff-hanger" that would hold the reader's interest until the following chapter was published.ĭickens uses the characters and situations in the book to make a pointed social commentary, attacking the hypocrisy and flaws of institutions, including his society's government, its laws and criminal system, and its methods of dealing with poor people. The book originally appeared as a "serial" that is, each chapter was published separately, in order, in a magazine called Bentley's Miscellany, of which Dickens was editor. ![]() It has been adapted as a film and a long-running Broadway musical and has been considered a classic ever since it was first published. It was written after he had already attained success as the author of The Pickwick Papers. Oliver Twist, published in 1838, is one of Charles Dickens's best-known and well-loved works. ![]()
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