Oliver Twist, subtitled The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naively unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin. Oliver Twist is notable for Dickens's unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives. The...

Pensaci, Giacomino e una commedia scritta nei primi mesi del 1917 da Luigi Pirandello. Tipici topoi pirandelliani riemergono con grande efficacia nell'opera: l'incapacita dello Stato, i paradossi esistenziali dell'individuo (doppi ruoli, crisi di identita) e i dilemmi che scaturiscono dalle sanzioni decise da parte della societa."