精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Oliver TwistOliver Twist is written by British writer Charles John Huffam Dickens in 1838. Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812. When he was a child, he had received education in a private school for a period of time. But he had not taken much formal education, essentially studying by himself. By the age of 12, Dickenss father was jailed because of the debt problem. Then he was sent to London as an apprentice in a shoeshine field, where he had to work for 10 hours a day.