《雾都孤儿》内容简介：一八三六年下半年，狄更斯的第一部长篇小说《匹克威克外传》取得了惊人的成功：匹克威克的名气一下子比英国首相还要大。出版商理查德·本特里约请声名大噪的博兹（狄更斯当时用的笔名）再写两部长篇，还聘他主编《本特里杂志》（《Bentley'sMiscellany》）。其中的一部自次年二月起在该杂志连载达两年之久，并于一八三八年十月出版单行本。这就是全称为《奥立弗·退斯特历险记》（《雾都孤儿》）的《雾都孤儿》面世经过。(Brief introduction of Oliver Twist: in the second half of 1836, Dickens's first novel The Pickwick Papers achieved a great success: the fame of Pickwick was even bigger than the British Prime Minister. The publisher Richard Bentrillo invited famous Boz (Dickens's pen name at that time) not only to write two novels but also to manage Bentley's Miscellany. One of them ran in the magazine from February of next year for two years, and published a booklet in October 1838. This was how the so-called Oliver Twist, with full name of The Adventure of Olier Twis (Oliver Twist), came.)