William Sikes is a fictional character and one of the main antagonists in the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Sikes is a malicious criminal in Fagin's gang, and a vicious robber and murder
Bill Sikes by Fred Barnard
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and as a three-volume book in 1838. The st
Bill Sikes
…William Sikes is a fictional character and one of the main antagonists (alongside Monks) in the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Sikes is a malicious criminal in Fagin's gang, and a vicious robber and murderer. Throughout much of the novel Sikes is shadowed…
Frontispiece and title-page, first edition 1838 Illustration and design by George Cruikshank
Cover, first edition of serial, entitled "The Adventures of Oliver Twist", January 1846
Mr Bumble by Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clark)
George Cruikshank original etching of the Artful Dodger (centre), here introducing Oliver (right) to Fagin (left)