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Oliver Twist

By Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

This is a complete, standalone TEI edition whose own hierarchy is preserved; translations are not forced into artificial chapter-by-chapter alignment.

English

Oliver Twist

53 reading units

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Contents

  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…
  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…
  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…
  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