With my last nomination I'll second Charles Dickens'
Oliver Twist and provide a synopsis and links to the ILLUSTRATED HarryT (yay!) versions in our library.
The Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub /
Kindle
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From Wikipedia (edited & condensed):
Oliver Twist is about an orphan 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. Naïvely unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin. The book is notable for Dickens' unromantic portrayal of criminals and its exposé of the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London during the Dickensian era.
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