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Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

The story follows orphan Oliver Twist, who escapes a workhouse and finds himself in London among a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin.

"Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens is a novel. The story follows orphan Oliver Twist, who escapes a workhouse and finds himself in London among a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin.

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Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.

For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth
  2. 02Chapter II. Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board
  3. 03Chapter III. Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure
  4. 04Chapter IV. Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry Into Public Life
  5. 05Chapter V. Oliver Mingles with New Associates. Going to a Funeral for the First Time, He Forms an Unfavourable Notion of His Master’s Business
  6. 06Chapter VI. Oliver, Being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah, Rouses Into Action, and Rather Astonishes Him
  7. 07Chapter VII. Oliver Continues Refractory
  8. 08Chapter VIII. Oliver Walks to London. He Encounters on the Road a Strange Sort of Young Gentleman
  9. 09Chapter IX. Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman, and His Hopeful Pupils
  10. 10Chapter 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
  11. 11Chapter XI. Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and Furnishes a Slight Specimen of His Mode of Administering Justice
  12. 12Chapter 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.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced to the Intelligent Reader, Connected with Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining to This History
  14. 14Chapter 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
  15. 15Chapter XV. Showing How Very Fond of Oliver Twist, the Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were
  16. 16Chapter XVI. Relates What Became of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed by Nancy
  17. 17Chapter XVII. Oliver’s Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings a Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of His Reputable Friends
  19. 19Chapter XIX. In Which a Notable Plan Is Discussed and Determined on
  20. 20Chapter XX. Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over to Mr. William Sikes
  21. 21Chapter XXI. The Expedition
  22. 22Chapter XXII. The Burglary
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. 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
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. Treats on a Very Poor Subject, but Is a Short One, and May Be Found of Importance in This History
  25. 25Chapter XXV. Wherein This History Reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. In Which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene; and Many Things, Inseparable from This History, Are Done and Performed
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter; Which Deserted a Lady, Most Unceremoniously
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. Looks After Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House, to Which Oliver Resorted
  30. 30Chapter XXX. Relates What Oliver’s New Visitors Thought of Him
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. Involves a Critical Position
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. Of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with His Kind Friends
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and His Friends, Experiences a Sudden Check
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to a Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives Upon the Scene; and a New Adventure Which Happened to Oliver
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. Containing the Unsatisfactory Result of Oliver’s Adventure; and a Conversation of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie and Rose
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. 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
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. In Which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. Containing an Account of What Passed Between Mr. And Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at Their Nocturnal Interview
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. Introduces Some Respectable Characters with Whom the Reader Is Already Acquainted, and Shows How Monks and the Jew Laid Their Worthy Heads Together
  40. 40Chapter XL. A Strange Interview, Which Is a Sequel to the Last Chamber
  41. 41Chapter XLI. Containing Fresh Discoveries, and Showing That Suprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone
  42. 42Chapter XLII. An Old Acquaintance of Oliver’s, Exhibiting Decided Marks of Genius, Becomes a Public Character in the Metropolis
  43. 43Chapter XLIII. Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble
  44. 44Chapter XLIV. The Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails.
  45. 45Chapter XLV. Noah Claypole Is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission
  46. 46Chapter XLVI. The Appointment Kept
  47. 47Chapter XLVII. Fatal Consequences
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII. The Flight of Sikes
  49. 49Chapter XLIX. Monks and Mr. Brownlow at Length Meet. Their Conversation, and the Intelligence That Interrupts It
  50. 50Chapter L. The Pursuit and Escape
  51. 51Chapter LI. Affording an Explanation of More Mysteries Than One, and Comprehending a Proposal of Marriage with No Word of Settlement or Pin-Money
  52. 52Chapter LII. Fagin’s Last Night Alive
  53. 53Chapter LIII. And Last

About this edition

Author
Charles Dickens
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
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Length
470 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers