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Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated

Charles Dickens

Illustrated by Charles Dickens" by Charles Dickens is a novel originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839.

"Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated by Charles Dickens" by Charles Dickens is a novel originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839.

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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. 14‘Where’s Oliver?’ said the Jew, rising with a menacing look. ‘Where’s the boy?’
  15. 15Chapter 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
  16. 16Chapter XV — Showing How Very Fond of Oliver Twist, the Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Relates What Became of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed by Nancy
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Oliver’s Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings a Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of His Reputable Friends
  20. 20Chapter XIX — in Which a Notable Plan Is Discussed and Determined on
  21. 21Chapter XX — Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over to Mr. William Sikes
  22. 22Chapter XXI — the Expedition
  23. 23Chapter XXII — the Burglary
  24. 24‘Hallo!’ cried a loud, hoarse voice, as soon as they set foot in the passage.
  25. 25Chapter 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
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — Treats on a Very Poor Subject. But Is a Short One, and May Be Found of Importance in This History
  27. 27Chapter XXV — Wherein This History Reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — in Which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene; and Many Things, Inseparable from This History, Are Done and Performed
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter; Which Deserted a Lady, Most Unceremoniously
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Looks After Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures
  31. 31‘Wolves tear your throats!’ muttered Sikes, grinding his teeth. ‘I wish I was among some of you; you’d howl the hoarser for it.’
  32. 32Chapter XXIX — Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House, to Which Oliver Resorted
  33. 33Chapter XXX — Relates What Oliver’s New Visitors Thought of Him
  34. 34Chapter XXXI — Involves a Critical Position
  35. 35‘Who’s that?’ inquired Brittles, opening the door a little way, with the chain up, and peeping out, shading the candle with his hand.
  36. 36Chapter XXXII — of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with His Kind Friends
  37. 37Chapter XXXIII — Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and His Friends, Experiences a Sudden Check
  38. 38Chapter XXXIV — Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to a Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives Upon the Scene; and a New Adventure Which Happened to Oliver
  39. 39Chapter XXXV — Containing the Unsatisfactory Result of Oliver’s Adventure; and a Conversation of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie and Rose
  40. 40Chapter 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
  41. 41Time Arrives
  42. 42Chapter XXXVII — in Which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases
  43. 43Chapter XXXVIII — Containing an Account of What Passed Between Mr. And Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at Their Nocturnal Interview
  44. 44Chapter XXXIX — Introduces Some Respectable Characters with Whom the Reader Is Already Acquainted, and Shows How Monks and the Jew Laid Their Worthy Heads Together
  45. 45Chapter XL — a Strange Interview, Which Is a Sequel to the Last Chamber
  46. 46Chapter XLI — Containing Fresh Discoveries, and Showing That Suprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone
  47. 47Chapter XLII — an Old Acquaintance of Oliver’s, Exhibiting Decided Marks of Genius, Becomes a Public Character in the Metropolis
  48. 48Chapter XLIII — Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble
  49. 49Chapter XLIV — the Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails.
  50. 50Chapter XLV — Noah Claypole Is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission
  51. 51Chapter XLVI — the Appointment Kept
  52. 52Chapter XLVII — Fatal Consequences
  53. 53Chapter XLVIII — the Flight of Sikes
  54. 54Chapter XLIX — Monks and Mr. Brownlow at Length Meet. Their Conversation, and the Intelligence That Interrupts It
  55. 55Chapter L — the Pursuit and Escape
  56. 56Chapter LI — Affording an Explanation of More Mysteries Than One, and Comprehending a Proposal of Marriage with No Word of Settlement or Pin-Money
  57. 57Chapter LII — Fagin’s Last Night Alive
  58. 58Chapter LIII — and Last
  59. 59The fortunes of those who have figured in this tale are nearly closed. The little that remains to their historian to relate, is told in few and simple words.

About this edition

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