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Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens · 53 parts · about 13 hours 6 minutes of reading

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Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse, raised on gruel and cruelty, and dares to ask for more. Running away to London, he falls in with a gang of child thieves ruled by the villainous Fagin. Dickens wrote this novel to show his England what poverty did to children, and its anger and its tenderness still sting today.

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Contents

Chapter I: Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth6 minChapter II: Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board20 minChapter III: Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure15 minChapter IV: Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry Into Public Life13 minChapter V: Oliver Mingles with New Associates. Going to a Funeral for the First Time, He Forms an Unfavourable Notion of His Master’s Business20 minChapter VI: Oliver, Being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah, Rouses Into Action, and Rather Astonishes Him9 minChapter VII: Oliver Continues Refractory12 minChapter VIII: Oliver Walks to London. He Encounters on the Road a Strange Sort of Young Gentleman16 minChapter IX: Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman, and His Hopeful Pupils12 minChapter 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 History9 minChapter XI: Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and Furnishes a Slight Specimen of His Mode of Administering Justice13 minChapter 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 Friends17 minChapter XIII: Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced to the Intelligent Reader, Connected with Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining to This History14 minChapter 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 Errand20 minChapter XV: Showing How Very Fond of Oliver Twist the Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were12 minChapter XVI: Relates What Became of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed by Nancy18 minChapter XVII: Oliver’s Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings a Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation16 minChapter XVIII: How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of His Reputable Friends15 minChapter XIX: In Which a Notable Plan Is Discussed and Determined On17 minChapter XX: Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over to Mr. William Sikes15 minChapter XXI: The Expedition11 minChapter XXII: The Burglary12 minChapter 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 Points14 minChapter XXIV: Treats on a Very Poor Subject. But Is a Short One, and May Be Found of Importance in This History10 minChapter XXV: Wherein This History Reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company11 minChapter XXVI: In Which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene; and Many Things, Inseparable from This History, Are Done and Performed22 minChapter XXVII: Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter; Which Deserted a Lady, Most Unceremoniously12 minChapter XXVIII: Looks After Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures17 minChapter XXIX: Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House, to Which Oliver Resorted7 minChapter XXX: Relates What Oliver’s New Visitors Thought of Him12 minChapter XXXI: Involves a Critical Position20 minChapter XXXII: Of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with His Kind Friends17 minChapter XXXIII: Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and His Friends Experiences a Sudden Check16 minChapter XXXIV: Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to a Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives Upon the Scene; and a New Adventure Which Happened to Oliver19 minChapter XXXV: Containing the Unsatisfactory Result of Oliver’s Adventure; and a Conversation of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie and Rose14 minChapter 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 Arrives5 minChapter XXXVII: In Which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases18 minChapter XXXVIII: Containing an Account of What Passed Between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at Their Nocturnal Interview18 minChapter XXXIX: Introduces Some Respectable Characters with Whom the Reader Is Already Acquainted, and Shows How Monks and the Jew Laid Their Worthy Heads Together26 minChapter XL: A Strange Interview, Which Is a Sequel to the Last Chapter13 minChapter XLI: Containing Fresh Discoveries, and Showing That Surprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone18 minChapter XLII: An Old Acquaintance of Oliver’s, Exhibiting Decided Marks of Genius, Becomes a Public Character in the Metropolis18 minChapter XLIII: Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble19 minChapter XLIV: The Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails12 minChapter XLV: Noah Claypole Is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission6 minChapter XLVI: The Appointment Kept18 minChapter XLVII: Fatal Consequences12 minChapter XLVIII: The Flight of Sikes17 minChapter XLIX: Monks and Mr. Brownlow at Length Meet. Their Conversation, and the Intelligence That Interrupts It18 minChapter L: The Pursuit and Escape21 minChapter LI: Affording an Explanation of More Mysteries Than One, and Comprehending a Proposal of Marriage with No Word of Settlement or Pin-Money24 minChapter LII: Fagin’s Last Night Alive16 minChapter LIII: And Last8 min

Source: Standard Ebooks. Published 1838. Author died 1870. Public domain worldwide. Share this book: WhatsApp

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