Oliver Twist

Contents

1. Titlepage
2. Imprint
3. I: Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth12 new words
4. II: Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board6 new words
5. III: Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure6 new words
6. IV: Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry Into Public Life7 new words
7. V: Oliver Mingles with New Associates. Going to a Funeral for the First Time, He Forms an Unfavourable Notion of His Master’s Business6 new words
8. VI: Oliver, Being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah, Rouses Into Action, and Rather Astonishes Him11 new words
9. VII: Oliver Continues Refractory10 new words
10. VIII: Oliver Walks to London. He Encounters on the Road a Strange Sort of Young Gentleman8 new words
11. IX: Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman, and His Hopeful Pupils6 new words
12. 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 History7 new words
13. XI: Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and Furnishes a Slight Specimen of His Mode of Administering Justice8 new words
14. 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 Friends6 new words
15. XIII: Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced to the Intelligent Reader, Connected with Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining to This History6 new words
16. 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 Errand10 new words
17. XV: Showing How Very Fond of Oliver Twist the Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were6 new words
18. XVI: Relates What Became of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed by Nancy6 new words
19. XVII: Oliver’s Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings a Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation6 new words
20. XVIII: How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of His Reputable Friends6 new words
21. XIX: In Which a Notable Plan Is Discussed and Determined On6 new words
22. XX: Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over to Mr. William Sikes6 new words
23. XXI: The Expedition11 new words
24. XXII: The Burglary6 new words
25. 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 Points6 new words
26. XXIV: Treats on a Very Poor Subject. But Is a Short One, and May Be Found of Importance in This History7 new words
27. XXV: Wherein This History Reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company6 new words
28. XXVI: In Which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene; and Many Things, Inseparable from This History, Are Done and Performed6 new words
29. XXVII: Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter; Which Deserted a Lady, Most Unceremoniously6 new words
30. XXVIII: Looks After Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures6 new words
31. XXIX: Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House, to Which Oliver Resorted10 new words
32. XXX: Relates What Oliver’s New Visitors Thought of Him9 new words
33. XXXI: Involves a Critical Position6 new words
34. XXXII: Of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with His Kind Friends7 new words
35. XXXIII: Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and His Friends Experiences a Sudden Check9 new words
36. XXXIV: Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to a Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives Upon the Scene; and a New Adventure Which Happened to Oliver10 new words
37. XXXV: Containing the Unsatisfactory Result of Oliver’s Adventure; and a Conversation of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie and Rose9 new words
38. 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 Arrives12 new words
39. XXXVII: In Which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases6 new words
40. XXXVIII: Containing an Account of What Passed Between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at Their Nocturnal Interview6 new words
41. XXXIX: Introduces Some Respectable Characters with Whom the Reader Is Already Acquainted, and Shows How Monks and the Jew Laid Their Worthy Heads Together6 new words
42. XL: A Strange Interview, Which Is a Sequel to the Last Chapter8 new words
43. XLI: Containing Fresh Discoveries, and Showing That Surprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone9 new words
44. XLII: An Old Acquaintance of Oliver’s, Exhibiting Decided Marks of Genius, Becomes a Public Character in the Metropolis6 new words
45. XLIII: Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble6 new words
46. XLIV: The Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails6 new words
47. XLV: Noah Claypole Is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission8 new words
48. XLVI: The Appointment Kept7 new words
49. XLVII: Fatal Consequences6 new words
50. XLVIII: The Flight of Sikes7 new words
51. XLIX: Monks and Mr. Brownlow at Length Meet. Their Conversation, and the Intelligence That Interrupts It8 new words
52. L: The Pursuit and Escape6 new words
53. LI: Affording an Explanation of More Mysteries Than One, and Comprehending a Proposal of Marriage with No Word of Settlement or Pin-Money8 new words
54. LII: Fagin’s Last Night Alive7 new words
55. LIII: And Last12 new words
56. Endnotes
57. Colophon
58. Uncopyright