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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
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About this book
A poor boy, born and raised in a workhouse in Victorian England, falls into the control of a gang of heartless criminals.
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- Titlepage
- Imprint
- I: Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth
- II: Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board
- III: Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure
- IV: Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry Into Public Life
- V: Oliver Mingles with New Associates. Going to a Funeral for the First Time, He Forms an Unfavourable Notion of His Master’s Business
- VI: Oliver, Being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah, Rouses Into Action, and Rather Astonishes Him
- VII: Oliver Continues Refractory
- VIII: Oliver Walks to London. He Encounters on the Road a Strange Sort of Young Gentleman
- IX: Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman, and His Hopeful Pupils
- 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
- XI: Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and Furnishes a Slight Specimen of His Mode of Administering Justice
- 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
- XIII: Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced to the Intelligent Reader, Connected with Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining to This History
- 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
- XV: Showing How Very Fond of Oliver Twist the Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were
- XVI: Relates What Became of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed by Nancy
- XVII: Oliver’s Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings a Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation
- XVIII: How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of His Reputable Friends
- XIX: In Which a Notable Plan Is Discussed and Determined On
- XX: Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over to Mr. William Sikes
- XXI: The Expedition
- XXII: The Burglary
- 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
- XXIV: Treats on a Very Poor Subject. But Is a Short One, and May Be Found of Importance in This History
- XXV: Wherein This History Reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company
- XXVI: In Which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene; and Many Things, Inseparable from This History, Are Done and Performed
- XXVII: Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter; Which Deserted a Lady, Most Unceremoniously
- XXVIII: Looks After Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures
- XXIX: Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House, to Which Oliver Resorted
- XXX: Relates What Oliver’s New Visitors Thought of Him
- XXXI: Involves a Critical Position
- XXXII: Of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with His Kind Friends
- XXXIII: Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and His Friends Experiences a Sudden Check
- XXXIV: Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to a Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives Upon the Scene; and a New Adventure Which Happened to Oliver
- XXXV: Containing the Unsatisfactory Result of Oliver’s Adventure; and a Conversation of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie and Rose
- 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 Arrives
- XXXVII: In Which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases
- XXXVIII: Containing an Account of What Passed Between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at Their Nocturnal Interview
- XXXIX: Introduces Some Respectable Characters with Whom the Reader Is Already Acquainted, and Shows How Monks and the Jew Laid Their Worthy Heads Together
- XL: A Strange Interview, Which Is a Sequel to the Last Chapter
- XLI: Containing Fresh Discoveries, and Showing That Surprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone
- XLII: An Old Acquaintance of Oliver’s, Exhibiting Decided Marks of Genius, Becomes a Public Character in the Metropolis
- XLIII: Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble
- XLIV: The Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails
- XLV: Noah Claypole Is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission
- XLVI: The Appointment Kept
- XLVII: Fatal Consequences
- XLVIII: The Flight of Sikes
- XLIX: Monks and Mr. Brownlow at Length Meet. Their Conversation, and the Intelligence That Interrupts It
- L: The Pursuit and Escape
- LI: Affording an Explanation of More Mysteries Than One, and Comprehending a Proposal of Marriage with No Word of Settlement or Pin-Money
- LII: Fagin’s Last Night Alive
- LIII: And Last
- Endnotes
- Colophon
- Uncopyright
Edition & source
This edition was prepared by Standard Ebooks. The original EPUB, typography, credits, imprint, colophon and copyright information are retained.
Edition contributors
- The League of Moveable Type (tyd)
- Charles Dickens (ann, aut)
- Dorothy Stanley (art)
- Peggy Gaugy (trc)
- Leigh Little (trc)
- David Grigg (bkp, blw, cov, mrk, pfr, tyg)
- Alex Cabal (pfr)