Oliver Twist
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Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist
List of Characters
Preface
CHAPTER I. Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was born and of the circumstances attending his birth
CHAPTER II. Treats of Oliver Twist’s growth, education, and board
CHAPTER III. Relates how Oliver Twist was very near getting a place which would not have been a sinecure
CHAPTER IV. Oliver, being offered another place, makes his first entry into public life
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
CHAPTER VI. Oliver, being goaded by the taunts of Noah, rouses into action, and rather astonishes him
CHAPTER VII. Oliver continues refractory
CHAPTER VIII. Oliver walks to London. He encounters on the road a strange sort of young gentleman
CHAPTER IX. Containing further particulars concerning the pleasant old gentleman, and his hopeful pupils
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
CHAPTER XI. Treats of Mr. Fang the police magistrate; and furnishes a slight specimen of his mode of administering justice
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
CHAPTER XIII. Some new acquaintances are introduced to the intelligent reader, connected with whom various pleasant matters are related, appertaining to this history
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
CHAPTER XV. Showing how very fond of Oliver Twist, the merry old Jew and Miss Nancy were
CHAPTER XVI. Relates what became of Oliver Twist, after he had been claimed by Nancy
CHAPTER XVII. Oliver’s destiny continuing unpropitious, brings a great man to London to injure his reputation
CHAPTER XVIII. How Oliver passed his time in the improving society of his reputable friends
CHAPTER XIX. In which a notable plan is discussed and determined on
CHAPTER XX. Wherein Oliver is delivered over to Mr. William Sikes
CHAPTER XXI. The expedition
CHAPTER XXII. The burglary
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
CHAPTER XXIV. Treats on a very poor subject. But is a short one, and may be found of importance in this history
CHAPTER XXV. Wherein this history reverts to Mr. Fagin and company
CHAPTER XXVI. In which a mysterious character appears upon the scene; and many things, inseparable from this history, are done and performed
CHAPTER XXVII. Atones for the unpoliteness of a former chapter; which deserted a lady, most unceremoniously
CHAPTER XXVIII. Looks after Oliver, and proceeds with his adventures
CHAPTER XXIX. Has an introductory account of the inmates of the house, to which Oliver resorted
CHAPTER XXX. Relates what Oliver’s new visitors thought of him
CHAPTER XXXI. Involves a critical position
CHAPTER XXXII. Of the happy life Oliver began to lead with his kind friends
CHAPTER XXXIII. Wherein the happiness of Oliver and his friends, experiences a sudden check
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
CHAPTER XXXV. Containing the unsatisfactory result of Oliver’s adventure; and a conversation of some importance between Harry Maylie and Rose
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
CHAPTER XXXVII. In which the reader may perceive a contrast, not uncommon in matrimonial cases
CHAPTER XXXVIII. Containing an account of what passed between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at their nocturnal interview
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
CHAPTER XL. A strange interview, which is a sequel to the last chapter
CHAPTER XLI. Containing fresh discoveries, and showing that suprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone
CHAPTER XLII. An old acquaintance of Oliver’s, exhibiting decided marks of genius, becomes a public character in the metropolis
CHAPTER XLIII. Wherein is shown how the Artful Dodger got into trouble
CHAPTER XLIV. The time arrives for Nancy to redeem her pledge to Rose Maylie. She fails
CHAPTER XLV. Noah Claypole is employed by Fagin on a secret mission
CHAPTER XLVI. The appointment kept
CHAPTER XLVII. Fatal consequences
CHAPTER XLVIII. The flight of Sikes
CHAPTER XLIX. Monks and Mr. Brownlow at length meet. their conversation, and the intelligence that interrupts it
CHAPTER L. The pursuit and escape
CHAPTER LI. Affording an explanation of more mysteries than one, and comprehending a proposal of marriage with no word of settlement or pin-money
CHAPTER LII. Fagin’s last night alive
CHAPTER LIII. And last
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Once upon a time it was held to be a coarse and shocking circumstance, that some of the characters in these pages are chosen from the most criminal and degraded of London’s population.
As I saw no reason, when I wrote this book, why the dregs of life (so long as their speech did not offend the ear) should not serve the purpose of a moral, as well as its froth and cream, I made bold to believe that this same Once upon a time would not prove to be All-time or even a long time. I saw many strong reasons for pursuing my course. I had read of thieves by scores; seductive fellows (amiable for the most part), faultless in dress, plump in pocket, choice in horseflesh, bold in bearing, fortunate in gallantry, great at a song, a bottle, pack of cards or dice-box, and fit companions for the bravest. But I had never met (except in HOGARTH) with the miserable reality. It appeared to me that to draw a knot of such associates in crime as really did exist; to paint them in all their deformity, in all their wretchedness, in all the squalid misery of their lives; to show them as they really were, for ever skulking uneasily through the dirtiest paths of life, with the great black ghastly gallows closing up their prospect, turn them where they might; it appeared to me that to do this, would be to attempt a something which was needed, and which would be a service to society. And I did it as I best could.
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‘Bow to the board,’ said Bumble. Oliver brushed away two or three tears that were lingering in his eyes; and seeing no board but the table, fortunately bowed to that.
‘What’s your name, boy?’ said the gentleman in the high chair.
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