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History of Collins

Life & Times

CHAPTER 1 Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was born, and of the circumstances attending his birth

CHAPTER 2 Treats of Oliver Twist’s growth, education, and board

CHAPTER 3 Relates how Oliver Twist was very near getting a place, which would not have been a sinecure

CHAPTER 4 Oliver, being offered another place, makes his first entry into public life

CHAPTER 5 Oliver mingles with new associates. Going to a funeral for the first time, he forms an unfavourable notion of his master’s business

CHAPTER 6 Oliver, being goaded by the taunts of Noah, rouses into action, and rather astonishes him

CHAPTER 7 Oliver continues refractory

CHAPTER 8 Oliver walks to London. He encounters on the road a strange sort of young gentleman

CHAPTER 9 Containing further particulars concerning the pleasant old gentleman, and his hopeful pupils

CHAPTER 10 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 11 Treats of Mr. Fang the police magistrate; and furnishes a slight specimen of his mode of administering justice

CHAPTER 12 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 13 Some new acquaintances are introduced to the intelligent reader, connected with whom various pleasant matters are related, appertaining to this history

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

CHAPTER 15 Showing how very fond of Oliver Twist, the merry old Jew and Miss Nancy were

CHAPTER 16 Relates what became of Oliver Twist, after he had been claimed by Nancy

CHAPTER 17 Oliver’s destiny continuing unpropitious, brings a great man to London to injure his reputation

CHAPTER 18 How Oliver passed his time in the improving society of his reputable friends

CHAPTER 19 In which a notable plan is discussed and determined on

CHAPTER 20 Wherein Oliver is delivered over to Mr. William Sikes

CHAPTER 21 The Expedition

CHAPTER 22 The Burglary

CHAPTER 23 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 24 Treats of a very poor subject. But it is a short one, and may be found of importance in this history

CHAPTER 25 Wherein this history reverts to Mr. Fagin and company

CHAPTER 26 In which a mysterious character appears upon the scene; and many things, inseparable from this history, are done and performed

CHAPTER 27 Atones for the unpoliteness of a former chapter; which deserted a lady, most unceremoniously

CHAPTER 28 Looks after Oliver, and proceeds with his adventures

CHAPTER 29 Has an introductory account of the inmates of the house, to which Oliver resorted

CHAPTER 30 Relates what Oliver’s new visitors thought of him

CHAPTER 31 Involves a critical position

CHAPTER 32 Of the happy life Oliver began to lead with his kind friends

CHAPTER 33 Wherein the happiness of Oliver and his friends, experiences a sudden check

CHAPTER 34 Contains some introductory particulars relative to a young gentleman who now arrives upon the scene; and a new adventure which happened to Oliver

CHAPTER 35 Containing the unsatisfactory result of Oliver’s adventure; and a conversation of some importance between Harry Maylie and Rose

CHAPTER 36 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 37 In which the reader may perceive a contrast, not uncommon in matrimonial cases

CHAPTER 38 Containing an account of what passed between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at their nocturnal interview

CHAPTER 39 Introduces some respectable characters with whom the reader is already acquainted, and shows how Monks and the Jew laid their worthy heads together

CHAPTER 40 A strange interview, which is a sequel to the last chapter

CHAPTER 41 Containing fresh discoveries, and showing that surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone

CHAPTER 42 An old acquaintance of Oliver’s, exhibiting decided marks of genius, becomes a public character in the metropolis

CHAPTER 43 Wherein is shown how the Artful Dodger got into trouble

CHAPTER 44 The time arrives for Nancy to redeem her pledge to Rose Maylie. She fails

CHAPTER 45 Noah Claypole is employed by Fagin on a secret mission

CHAPTER 46 The appointment kept

CHAPTER 47 Fatal consequences

CHAPTER 48 The flight of Sikes

CHAPTER 49 Monks and Mr. Brownlow at length meet. Thir conversation, and the intelligence that interrupts it

CHAPTER 50 The pursuit and escape

CHAPTER 51 Affording an explanation of more mysteries than one, and comprehending a proposal of marriage with no word of settlement or pin-money

CHAPTER 52 Fagin’s last night alive

CHAPTER 53 And last

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