"Olivier Twist: Les voleurs de Londres" by Charles Dickens is a novel published in monthly installments between 1837 and 1839. The story follows orphan Oliver Twist, who suffers harsh treatment in a parish workhouse before escaping to London. There he falls in with the Artful Dodger and a gang of young pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin. One of the first social novels of the nineteenth century, it exposes the brutal reality of London's underworld and the cruelty faced by Victorian orphans through dark irony and unflinching realism.