Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS
BY
CHARLES DICKENS
Table of Contents
- Chapter I (Treats Of The Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born And Of The Circumstances Attending His Birth)
- Chapter II (Treats Of Oliver Twist's Growth, Education, And Board)
- Chapter III (Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting A Place Which Would Not Have Been A Sinecure)
- Chapter IV (Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry Into Public Life)
- Chapter V (Oliver Mingles With New Associates. Going To A Funeral For The First Time, He Forms An Unfavourable Notion Of His Master's Business)
- Chapter VI (Oliver, Being Goaded By The Taunts Of Noah, Rouses Into Action, And Rather Astonishes Him)
- Chapter VII (Oliver Continues Refractory)
- Chapter VIII (Oliver Walks To London. He Encounters On The Road A Strange Sort Of Young Gentleman)
- Chapter IX (Containing Further Particulars Concerning The Pleasant Old Gentleman, And His Hopeful Pupils)
- Chapter X (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 XI (Treats Of Mr. Fang The Police Magistrate; And Furnishes A Slight Specimen Of His Mode Of Administering Justice)
- Chapter XII (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 XIII (Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced To The Intelligent Reader, Connected With Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining To This History)
- Chapter XIV (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 XV (Showing How Very Fond Of Oliver Twist, The Merry Old Jew And Miss Nancy Were)
- Chapter XVI (Relates What Became Of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed By Nancy)
- Chapter XVII (Oliver's Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings A Great Man To London To Injure His Reputation)
- Chapter XVIII (How Oliver Passed His Time In The Improving Society Of His Reputable Friends)
- Chapter XIX (In Which A Notable Plan Is Discussed And Determined On)
- Chapter XX (Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over To Mr. William Sikes)
- Chapter XXI (The Expedition)
- Chapter XXII (The Burglary)
- Chapter XXIII (Which Contains The Substance Of A Pleasant Conversation Between Mr. Bumble And A Lady; And Shows That Evem A Beadle May Be Susceptible On Some Points)
- Chapter XXIV (Treats On A Very Poor Subject. But Is A Short One, And May Be Found Of Importance In This History)
- Chapter XXV (Wherein This History Reverts To Mr. Fagin And Company)
- Chapter XXVI (In Which A Mysterious Character Appears Upon The Scene; And Many Things, Inseparable From This History, Are Done And Performed)
- Chapter XXVII (Atones For The Unpoliteness Of A Former Chapter; Which Deserted A Lady, Most Unceremoniously)
- Chapter XXVIII (Looks After Oliver, And Proceeds With His Adventures)
- Chapter XXIX (Has An Introductory Account Of The Inmates Of The House, To Which Oliver Resorted)
- Chapter XXX (Relates What Oliver's New Visitors Thought Of Him)
- Chapter XXXI (Involves A Critical Position)
- Chapter XXXII (Of The Happy Life Oliver Began To Lead With His Kind Friends)
- Chapter XXXIII (Wherein The Happiness Of Oliver And His Friends, Experiences A Sudden Check)
- Chapter XXXIV (Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative To A Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives Upon The Scene; And A New Adventure Which Happened To Oliver)
- Chapter XXXV (Containing The Unsatisfactory Result Of Oliver's Adventure; And A Conversation Of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie And Rose)
- Chapter XXXVI (Is A Very Short One, And May Appear Of No Great Importance In Its Place, But It Should Be Read Notwithstanding, As A Sequal To The Last, And A Key To One That Will Follow When Its Time Arrives)
- Chapter XXXVII (In Which The Reader May Perceive A Contrast, Not Uncommon In Matrimonial Cases)
- Chapter XXXVIII (Containing An Account Of What Passed Between Mr. And Mrs. Bumble, And Mr. Monks, At Their Nocturnal Interview)
- Chapter XXXIX (Introduces Some Respectable Characters With Whom The Reader Is Already Acquainted, And Shows How Monks And The Jew Laid Their Worthy Heads Together)
- Chapter XL (A Strange Inverview, Which Is A Sequel To The Last Chamber)
- Chapter XLI (Containing Fresh Discoveries, And Showing That Suprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone)
- Chapter XLII (An Old Acquaintance Of Oliver's, Exhibiting Decided Marks Of Genius, Becomes A Public Character In The Metropolis)
- Chapter XLIII (Wherein Is Shown How The Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble)
- Chapter XLIV (The Time Arrives For Nancy To Redeem Her Pledge To Rose Maylie. She Fails.)
- Chapter XLV (Noah Claypole Is Employed By Fagin On A Secret Mission)
- Chapter XLVI (The Appointment Kept)
- Chapter XLVII (Fatal Consequences)
- Chapter XLVIII (The Flight Of Skies)
- Chapter XLIX (Monks And Mr. Brownlow At Length Meet. Their Conversation, And The Intelligence That Interrupts It)
- Chapter L (The Pursuit And Escape)
- Chapter LI (Affording An Explanation Of More Mysteries Than One, And Comprehending A Proposal Of Marriage With No Word Of Settlement Or Pin-Money)
- Chapter LII (Fagin's Last Night Alive)
- Chapter LIII (And Last)