Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’s social masterpiece, Oliver Twist (1838), is a core prose text widely studied in Uganda's UNEB A-Level Literature in English (Paper 1: Prose). Written as a fierce reaction to the Poor Law of 1834, the novel uses a blend of melodrama, satire, and realism to expose the cruelty of Victorian workhouses, the exploitation of children, and the grim reality of London’s criminal underworld.