Junior Classics have been adapted and illustrated with care and thought to introduce you to a worlds of famous authors, characters, ideas, and great stories that have been loved for generations. Poor Oliver... Starved and mistreated as a workhouse orphan, he runs away to London, hoping to find a better life. But twists and turns - and some rather odd characters - await him and shape his tale. Oliver's fate is in the hands of villains and thieves, one kind old gentleman, one woman with a change of heart, and a twisted man who follows his every move... Fully illustrated and adapted. Ages 8 and up. Reading Level 3.7.