After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble Oliver Twist finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger vicious burglar Bill Sikes his dog Bull's Eye and prostitute Nancy all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin.|Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagi