Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Treats Of The Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born And Of The Circumstances Attending His Birth

Chapter 2 - Treats Of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, And Board

Chapter 3 - Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting A Place Which Would Not Have Been A Sinecure

Chapter 4 - Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry Into Public Life

Chapter 5 - Oliver Mingles With New Associates. Going To A Funeral For The First Time, He Forms An Unfavourable Notion Of His Master’s Business

Chapter 6 - Oliver, Being Goaded By The Taunts Of Noah, Rouses Into Action, And Rather Astonishes Him

Chapter 7 - Oliver Continues Refractory

Chapter 8 - Oliver Walks To London. He Encounters On The Road A Strange Sort Of Young Gentleman

Chapter 9 - Containing Further Particulars Concerning The Pleasant Old Gentleman, And His Hopeful Pupils

Chapter 10 - Oliver Becomes Better Acquainted With The Characters Of His New Associates; And Purchases Experience At A High Price. Being A Short, But Very Important Chapter, In This History

Chapter 11 - Treats Of Mr. Fang The Police Magistrate; And Furnishes A Slight Specimen Of His Mode Of Administering Justice

Chapter 12 -In Which Oliver Is Taken Better Care Of Than He Ever Was Before. And In Which The Narrative Reverts To The Merry Old Gentleman And His Youthful Friends.

Chapter 13 - Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced To The Intelligent Reader, Connected With Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining To This History

Chapter 14 - Comprising Further Particulars Of Oliver’s Stay At Mr. Brownlow’s, With The Remarkable Prediction Which One Mr. Grimwig Uttered Concerning Him, When He Went Out On An Errand

Chapter 15 - Showing How Very Fond Of Oliver Twist, The Merry Old Jew And Miss Nancy Were

Chapter 16 - Relates What Became Of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed By Nancy

Chapter 17 - Oliver’s Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings A Great Man To London To Injure His Reputation

Chapter 18 - How Oliver Passed His Time In The Improving Society Of His Reputable Friends

Chapter 19 - In Which A Notable Plan Is Discussed And Determined On

Chapter 20 - Wherein Olver Is Delivered Over To Mr. William Sikes

Chapter 21 - The Expedition

Chapter 22 - The Burglary

Chapter 23 - Which Contains The Substance Of A Pleasant Conversation Between Mr. Bumble And A Lady; And Shows That Even A Beadle May Be Susceptible On Some Points

Chapter 24 - Treats On A Very Poor Subject. But Is A Short One, And May Be Found Of Importance In This History

Chapter 25 - Wherein This History Reverts To Mr. Fagin And Company

Chapter 26 - In Which A Mysterious Character Appears Upon The Scene; And Many Things, Inseparable From This History, Are Done And Performed

Chapter 27 - Atones For The Unpoliteness Of A Former Chapter; Which Deserted A Lady, Most Unceremoniously

Chapter 28 - Looks After Oliver, And Proceeds With His Adventures

Chapter 29 - Has An Introductory Account Of The Inmates Of The House, To Which Oliver Resorted

Chapter 30 - Relates What Oliver’s New Visitors Thought Of Him

Chapter 31 - Involves A Critical Position

Chapter 32 - Of The Happy Life Oliver Began To Lead With His Kind Friends

Chapter 33 - Wherein The Happiness Of Oliver And His Friends, Experiences A Sudden Check

Chapter 34 - Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative To A Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives Upon The Scene; And A New Adventure Which Happened To Oliver

Chapter 35 - Containing The Unsatisfactory Result Of Oliver’s Adventure; And A Conversation Of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie And Rose

Chapter 36 - Is A Very Short One, And May Appear Of No Great Importance In Its Place, But It Should Be Read Notwithstanding, As A Sequel To The Last, And A Key To One That Will Follow When Its Time Arrives

Chapter 37 - In Which The Reader May Perceive A Contrast, Not Uncommon In Matrimonial Cases

Chapter 38 - Containing An Account Of What Passed Between Mr. And Mrs. Bumble, And Mr. Monks, At Their Nocturnal Interview

Chapter 39 - Introduces Some Respectable Characters With Whom The Reader Is Already Acquainted, And Shows How Monks And The Jew Laid Their Worthy Heads Together

Chapter 40 - A Strange Interview, Which Is A Sequel To The Last Chamber

Chapter 41 - Containing Fresh Discoveries, And Showing That Suprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone

Chapter 42 - An Old Acquaintance Of Oliver’s, Exhibiting Decided Marks Of Genius, Becomes A Public Character In The Metropolis

Chapter 43 - Wherein Is Shown How The Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble

Chapter 44 - The Time Arrives For Nancy To Redeem Her Pledge To Rose Maylie. She Fails.

Chapter 45 - Noah Claypole Is Employed By Fagin On A Secret Mission

Chapter 46 - The Appointment Kept

Chapter 47 - Fatal Consequences

Chapter 48 - The Flight Of Sikes

Chapter 49 - Monks And Mr. Brownlow At Length Meet. Their Conversation, And The Intelligence That Interrupts It

Chapter 50 - The Pursuit And Escape

Chapter 51 - Affording An Explanation Of More Mysteries Than One, And Comprehending A Proposal Of Marriage With No Word Of Settlement Or Pin–Money

Chapter 52 - Fagin’s Last Night Alive

Chapter 53 - And Last