Introduction |
Chronology |
The Author's Preface to the Third Edition (1841) |
Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was born, and of the circumstances attending his birth / Chapter 1: |
Treats of Oliver Twist's growth, education, and board / Chapter 2: |
Relates how Oliver Twist was very near getting a place, which would not have been a sinecure / Chapter 3: |
Oliver, being offered another place, makes his first entry into public life / Chapter 4: |
Oliver mingles with new associates. Going to a funeral for the first time, he forms an unfavourable notion of his master's business / Chapter 5: |
Oliver, being goaded by the taunts of Noah, rouses into action, and rather astonishes him / Chapter 6: |
Oliver continues refractory / Chapter 7: |
Oliver walks to London. He encounters on the road a strange sort of young gentleman / Chapter 8: |
Containing further particulars concerning the pleasant old gentleman, and his hopeful pupils / Chapter 9: |
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 10: |
Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and furnishes a slight specimen of his mode of administering justice / Chapter 11: |
Chronology of Dickens's Life and Work / Chapter 12: |
Historical Context of Oliver Twist |
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 |
Oliver Twist |
Notes Interpretive / Chapter 13: |
Notes Critical |
Some new acquaintances are introduced to the intelligent reader, connected with whom, various pleasant matters are related, appertaining to this history |
Excerpts Questions for Discussion |
Suggestions for the Interested Reader / Chapter 14: |
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 |
Showing how very fond of Oliver Twist, the merry old Jew and Miss Nancy were / Chapter 15: |
Relates what became of Oliver Twist, after he had been claimed by Nancy / Chapter 16: |
Oliver's destiny continuing unpropitious, brings a great man to London to injure his reputation / Chapter 17: |
How Oliver passed his time in the improving society of his reputable friends / Chapter 18: |
In which a notable plan is discussed and determined on / Chapter 19: |
Wherein Oliver is delivered over to Mr. William Sikes / Chapter 20: |
The Expedition / Chapter 21: |
The Burglary / Chapter 22: |
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 23: |
Treats of a very poor subject. But is a short one, and may be found of importance in this history / Chapter 24: |
Wherein this history reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company / Chapter 25: |
In which a mysterious character appears upon the scene; and many things, inseparable from this history, are done and performed / Chapter 26: |
Atones for the unpoliteness of a former chapter; which deserted a lady, most unceremoniously / Chapter 27: |
Looks after Oliver, and proceeds with his adventures / Chapter 28: |
Has an introductory account of the inmates of the house, to which Oliver resorted / Chapter 29: |
Relates what Oliver's new visitors thought of him / Chapter 30: |
Involves a critical position / Chapter 31: |
Of the happy life Oliver began to lead with his kind friends / Chapter 32: |
Wherein the happiness of Oliver and his friends, experiences a sudden check / Chapter 33: |
Contains some introductory particulars relative to a young gentleman who now arrives upon the scene; and a new adventure which happened to Oliver / Chapter 34: |
Containing the unsatisfactory result of Oliver's adventure; and a conversation of some importance between Harry Maylie and Rose / Chapter 35: |
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 36: |
In which the reader may perceive a contrast, not uncommon in matrimonial cases / Chapter 37: |
Containing an account of what passed between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at their nocturnal interview / Chapter 38: |
Introduces some respectable characters with whom the reader is already acquainted, and shows how Monks and the Jew laid their worthy heads together / Chapter 39: |
A strange interview, which is a sequel to the last chapter / Chapter 40: |
Containing fresh discoveries, and showing that surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone / Chapter 41: |
An old acquaintance of Oliver's, exhibiting decided marks of genius, becomes a public character in the metropolis / Chapter 42: |
Wherein is shown how the Artful Dodger got into trouble / Chapter 43: |
The time arrives for Nancy to redeem her pledge to Rose Maylie. She fails / Chapter 44: |
Noah Claypole is employed by Fagin on a secret mission / Chapter 45: |
The Appointment kept / Chapter 46: |
Fatal Consequences / Chapter 47: |
The Flight of Sikes / Chapter 48: |
Monks and Mr. Brownlow at length meet. Their conversation, and the intelligence that interrupts it / Chapter 49: |
The Pursuit and Escape / Chapter 50: |
Affording an explanation of more mysteries than one, and comprehending a proposal of marriage with no word of settlement or pin-money / Chapter 51: |
Fagin's last night alive / Chapter 52: |
And Last / Chapter 53: |
Introduction |
Chronology |
The Author's Preface to the Third Edition (1841) |