Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

First published 1837

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 Oliver 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