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Index
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
A Dickens Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Text
Oliver Twist
[Book the First]
Chapter The First: Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist was Born, and of the Circumstances Attending his Birth
Chapter The Second Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board
Chapter The Third Relates How Oliver Twist was Very Near Getting A Place, Which Would No T Ha Ve Been A Sinecure
Chapter the Fourth Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry Into Public Life
Chapter the Fifth Oliver Mingles With New Associates, And, Going to A Funeral For the First Time, Forms An Unfavourable Notion Of His Master’S Business
Chapter the Sixth Oliver, Being Goaded By the Taunts Of Noah, Rouses Into Action, And Rather Astonishes Him
Chapter the Seventh Oliver Continues Refractory
Chapter the Eighth Oliver Walks to London, And Encounters On the Road A Strange Sort Of Young Gentleman
Chapter the Ninth Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman, And His Hopeful Pupils
Chapter the Tenth 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
Chapter the Eleventh Treats Of Mr Fang the Police Magistrate, And Furnishes A Slight Specimen Of His Mode Of Administering Justice
Chapter the Twelfth In Which Oliver Is Taken Better Care Of, Than He Ever was Before. With Some Particulars Concerning A Certain Picture
Chapter the Thirteenth Reverts to the Merry Old Gentleman And His Youthful Friends, Through Whom A New Acquaintance Is Introduced to the Intelligent Reader, And Connected With Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related Appertaining to This History
Chapter the Fourteenth 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
Chapter the Fifteenth Shewing How Very Fond Of Oliver Twist, the Merry Old Jew And Miss Nancy Were
Chapter the Sixteenth Relates What Became Of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimedby Nancy
Chapter the Seventeenth Oliver’S Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings A Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation
Chapter the Eighteenth How Oliver Passed His Time In the Improving Society Of His Reputable Friends
Chapter the Nineteenth In Which A Notable Plan Is Discussed And Determined On
Chapter the Twentieth Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over to Mr William Sikes
Chapter the Twenty-First the Expedition
Chapter the Twenty-Second the Burglary
Book the Second
Chapter the First 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
Chapter the Second Treats Of A Very Poor Subject, But Is A Short One, And May Be Found Of Importance In This History
Chapter the Third Wherein This History Reverts to Mr Fagin And Company
Chapter the Fourth In Which A Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene, And Many Things Inseparable From This History Are Done And Performed
Chapter the Fifth Atones For the Unpoliteness Of A Former Chapter, Which Deserted A Lady Most Unceremoniously
Chapter the Sixth Looks After Oliver, And Proceeds With His Adventures
Chapter the Seventh Has An Introductory Account Of the Inmates Of the House to Which Oliver Resorted, And Relates What they Thought Of Him
Chapter the Eighth Involves A Critical Position
Chapter the Ninth Of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead With His Kind Friends
Chapter the Tenth Wherein the Happiness Of Oliver And His Friends Experiences A Sudden Check
Chapter the Eleventh Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to A Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives Upon the Scene, And A New Adventure Which Happened to Oliver
Chapter the Twelfth Containing the Unsatisfactory Result Of Oliver’S Adventure, And A Conversation Of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie And Rose
Chapter the Thirteenth 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
Chapter the Fourteenth In Which the Reader, If He Or She Resort to the Fifth Chapter Of This Second Book, Will Perceive A Contrast Not Uncommon In Matrimonial Cases
Book the Third
Chapter the First Containing An Account Of What Passed Between Mr And Mrs Bumble And Monks At their Nocturnal Interview
Chapter the Second Introduces Some Respectable Characters With Whom the Reader Is Already Acquainted, And Shows How Monks And the Jew Laid their Worthy Heads Together
Chapter the Third 1 A Strange Interview, Which Is A Sequel to the Last Chapter
Chapter the Fourth Containing Fresh Discoveries, And Showing That Surprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone
Chapter the Fifth An Old Acquaintance Of Oliver’S, Exhibiting Decided Marks Of Genius, Becomes A Public Character In the Metropolis
Chapter the Sixth Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble
Chapter the Seventh the Time Arrives For Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails. Noah Claypole Is Employed By Fagin On A Secret Mission
Chapter the Eighth the Appointment Kept
Chapter the Nineth Fatal Consequences
Chapter the Tenth the Flight Of Sikes
Chapter the Eleventh Monks And Mr Brownlow At Length Meet. their Conversation, And the Intelligence That Interrupts It
Chapter the Twelfth the Pursuit And Escape
Chapter the Thirteenth Affording An Explanation Of More Mysteries Than One, And Comprehending A Proposal Of Marriage With No Word Of Settlement Or Pin-Money
Chapter the Fourteenth the Jew’S Last Night Alive
Chapter the Fifteenth And Last
Appendix A The Author’s Introduction to the Third Edition (1841)
Appendix B Preface to the ‘Cheap Edition’ (1850)
Appendix C Glossary of Thieves’ Cant and Slang and Some Unusual Words
Appendix D List of Chapters
Appendix E Map of London in 1837
Notes
Selected Textual Variants
Footnotes
Chapter the Sixteenth Relates What Became Of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimedby Nancy
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