There have been more than 20 screen adaptations of Oliver Twist on the big and small screen, with the first as early as 1909 when Edith Storey played young Oliver. Polanski decided he wanted his ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist." ...