Charles Dickens • 53 chapters
- 1 Chapter I. Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth
- 2 Chapter II. Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board
- 3 Chapter III. Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure
- 4 Chapter IV. Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry into Public Life
- 5 Chapter V. Oliver Mingles with New Associates. Going to a Funeral for the First Time, He Forms an Unfavourable Notion of His Master’s Business
- 6 Chapter VI. Oliver, Being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah, Rouses into Action, and Rather Astonishes Him
- 7 Chapter VII. Oliver Continues Refractory
- 8 Chapter VIII. Oliver Walks to London. He Encounters on the Road a Strange Sort of Young Gentleman
- 9 Chapter IX. Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman, and His Hopeful Pupils
- 10 Chapter 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
- 11 Chapter XI. Treats of Mr Fang the Police Magistrate; and Furnishes a Slight Specimen of His Mode of Administering Justice
- 12 Chapter 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.
- 13 Chapter XIII. Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced to the Intelligent Reader, Connected with Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining to This History
- 14 Chapter 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
- 15 Chapter XV. Showing How Very Fond of Oliver Twist, the Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were
- 16 Chapter XVI. Relates What Became of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed by Nancy
- 17 Chapter XVII. Oliver’s Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings a Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation
- 18 Chapter XVIII. How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of His Reputable Friends
- 19 Chapter XIX. in Which a Notable Plan Is Discussed and Determined On
- 20 Chapter XX. Wherein Oliver Is Delivered over to Mr William Sikes
- 21 Chapter XXI. the Expedition
- 22 Chapter XXII. the Burglary
- 23 Chapter 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
- 24 Chapter XXIV. Treats on a Very Poor Subject, but Is a Short One, and May Be Found of Importance in This History
- 25 Chapter XXV. Wherein This History Reverts to Mr Fagin and Company
- 26 Chapter XXVI. in Which a Mysterious Character Appears upon the Scene; and Many Things, Inseparable from This History, Are Done and Performed
- 27 Chapter XXVII. Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter; Which Deserted a Lady, Most Unceremoniously
- 28 Chapter XXVIII. Looks After Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures
- 29 Chapter XXIX. Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House, to Which Oliver Resorted
- 30 Chapter XXX. Relates What Oliver’s New Visitors Thought of Him
- 31 Chapter XXXI. Involves a Critical Position
- 32 Chapter XXXII. of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with His Kind Friends
- 33 Chapter XXXIII. Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and His Friends, Experiences a Sudden Check
- 34 Chapter XXXIV. Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to a Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives upon the Scene; and a New Adventure Which Happened to Oliver
- 35 Chapter XXXV. Containing the Unsatisfactory Result of Oliver’s Adventure; and a Conversation of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie and Rose
- 36 Chapter 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
- 37 Chapter XXXVII. in Which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases
- 38 Chapter XXXVIII. Containing an Account of What Passed Between Mr and Mrs Bumble, and Mr Monks, at Their Nocturnal Interview
- 39 Chapter XXXIX. Introduces Some Respectable Characters with Whom the Reader Is Already Acquainted, and Shows How Monks and the Jew Laid Their Worthy Heads Together
- 40 Chapter XL. a Strange Interview, Which Is a Sequel to the Last Chamber
- 41 Chapter XLI. Containing Fresh Discoveries, and Showing That Suprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone
- 42 Chapter XLII. an Old Acquaintance of Oliver’s, Exhibiting Decided Marks of Genius, Becomes a Public Character in the Metropolis
- 43 Chapter XLIII. Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got into Trouble
- 44 Chapter XLIV. the Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails.
- 45 Chapter XLV. Noah Claypole Is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission
- 46 Chapter XLVI. the Appointment Kept
- 47 Chapter XLVII. Fatal Consequences
- 48 Chapter XLVIII. the Flight of Sikes
- 49 Chapter XLIX. Monks and Mr Brownlow at Length Meet. Their Conversation, and the Intelligence That Interrupts It
- 50 Chapter L. the Pursuit and Escape
- 51 Chapter LI. Affording an Explanation of More Mysteries Than One, and Comprehending a Proposal of Marriage with No Word of Settlement or Pin-Money
- 52 Chapter LII. Fagin’s Last Night Alive
- 53 Chapter LIII. and Last