"In which magazine was Dickens' ""Oliver Twist"" first serialised?"
Oliver Twist contributed as well. "Oliver Twist" has been the subject of numerous adaptations for various media, including a highly successful musical play, "Oliver!", and the multiple Academy Award-winning 1968 motion picture. Disney also put its spin on the novel with the animated film called "Oliver & Company" in 1988. The novel was originally published in monthly instalments in the magazine "Bentley's Miscellany", from February 1837 to April 1839. It was originally intended to form part of Dickens's serial, "The Mudfog Papers". George Cruikshank provided one steel etching per month to illustrate each instalment. The novel first appeared in book form six
Oliver Twist Oliver Twist Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets "The Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin. "Oliver Twist" is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.