Oliver Twist: or the Parish Boy's ProgressRaised in a workhouse for orphans, Oliver Twist never knew his mother, who died just after he was born, and he has no idea who his father could be. He escapes the workhouse and runs away to London, where he discovers the city's seedy underbelly that teems with pickpockets and beggars. While making friends and enemies in high and low places, Oliver tries to avoid a life of destitution and crime in the corrupt city. English author Charles Dickens' rags-to-riches story champions the poor and examines social morals. This is an unabridged version of the novel, first published in 1838. |
Contents
Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth | 1 |
Treats of Oliver Twists Growth Education and Board | 5 |
Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very near Getting a Place Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure | 18 |
Oliver Being Offered Another Place Makes His First Entry into Public Life | 29 |
Oliver Mingles with New Associates Going to a Funeral for the First Time He Forms an Unfavourable Notion of His Masters Business | 38 |
Oliver Being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah Rouses into Action and Rather Astonishes Him | 51 |
Oliver Continues Refractory | 57 |
Oliver Walks to London He Encounters on the Rooad a Strange Sort of Young Gentleman | 65 |
Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House to Which Oliver Resorted | 267 |
Relates What Olivers New Visitors Thought of Him | 272 |
Involves a Critical Position | 280 |
Of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with His Kind Friends | 293 |
Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and His Friends Experiences a Sudden Check | 304 |
Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to a Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives upon the Scene and a New Adventure Which Happened t... | 314 |
Containing the Unsatisfactory Result of Olivers Adventure and a Conversation of Some Importance between Harry Maylie and Rose | 326 |
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... | 335 |
Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman and His Hopeful Pupils | 75 |
Oliver Becomes Better Acquainted with the Characters of His New Associates and Purchases Experience at a High Price Being a Short but Very Impor... | 83 |
Treats of Mr Fang the Police Magistrate and Furnishes a Slight Specimen of His Mode of Administering Justice | 89 |
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 Youthf... | 98 |
Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced to the Intelligent Reader Connected with Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related Appertaining to This... | 109 |
Comprising Further Particulars of Olivers Stay at Mr Brownlows with the Remarkable Prediction Which One Mr Grimwig Uttered Concerning Him ... | 119 |
Showing How Very Fond of Oliver Twist the Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were | 132 |
Relates What Became of Oliver Twist after He Had Been Claimed by Nancy | 140 |
Chapter XVII Olivers Destiny Continuing Unpropitious Brings a Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation | 152 |
How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of His Reputable Friends | 163 |
In Which a Notable Plan Is Discussed and Determined On | 173 |
Wherein Oliver Is Delivered over to Mr William Sikes | 184 |
The Expedition | 194 |
The Burglary | 201 |
Which Contains the Substance of a Pleasant Conversation between Mr Bumble and a Lady and Shows That Even a Beadle May Be Susceptible on So... | 209 |
Treats on a Very Poor Subject But Is a Short One and May Be Found of Importance in This History | 218 |
Wherein This History Reverts to Mr Fagin and Company | 225 |
In Which a Mysterious Character Appears upon the Scene and Many Things Inseparable from This History Are Done and Performed | 233 |
Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter Which Deserted a Lady Most Unceremoniously | 247 |
Looks After Oliver and Proceeds with His Adventures | 256 |
In Which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases | 339 |
Containing an Account of What Passed between Mr and Mrs Bumble and Mr Monks at Their Nocturnal Interview | 351 |
Introduces Some Respectable Characters with Whom the Reader Is Already Acquainted and Shows How Monks and the Jew Laid Their Worthy Head... | 363 |
A Strange Interview Which Is a Sequel to the Last Chapter | 380 |
Containing Fresh Discoveries and Showing That Suprises Like Misfortunes Seldom Come Alone | 388 |
An Old Acquaintance of Olivers Exhibiting Decided Marks of Genius Becomes a Public Character in the Metropolis | 400 |
Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got into Trouble | 412 |
The Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie She Fails | 425 |
Noah Claypole Is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission | 433 |
The Appointment Kept | 438 |
Fatal Consequences | 449 |
The Flight of Sikes | 458 |
Monks and Mr Brownlow at Length Meet Their Conversation and the Intelligence That Interrupts It | 469 |
The Pursuit and Escape | 481 |
Affording an Explanation of More Mysteries Than One and Comprehending a Proposal of Marriage with No Word of Settlement or PinMoney | 495 |
Fagins Last Night Alive | 510 |
And Last | 520 |
Back Cover | 526 |
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