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Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens · 1838

Original text in English.

London, its workhouses and its gangs of child thieves, through the fate of an orphan.

Novel · 53 parts · about 156 000 words · about 11 h 20 of reading

Contents

1. ITREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH5 min
2. IITREATS OF OLIVER TWIST’S GROWTH, EDUCATION, AND BOARD17 min
3. IIIRELATES HOW OLIVER TWIST WAS VERY NEAR GETTING A PLACE WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A SINECURE13 min
4. IVOLIVER, BEING OFFERED ANOTHER PLACE, MAKES HIS FIRST ENTRY INTO PUBLIC LIFE11 min
5. VOLIVER MINGLES WITH NEW ASSOCIATES. GOING TO A FUNERAL FOR THE FIRST TIME, HE FORMS AN UNFAVOURABLE NOTION OF HIS MASTER’S BUSINESS17 min
6. VIOLIVER, BEING GOADED BY THE TAUNTS OF NOAH, ROUSES INTO ACTION, AND RATHER ASTONISHES HIM7 min
7. VIIOLIVER CONTINUES REFRACTORY10 min
8. VIIIOLIVER WALKS TO LONDON. HE ENCOUNTERS ON THE ROAD A STRANGE SORT OF YOUNG GENTLEMAN14 min
9. IXCONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD GENTLEMAN, AND HIS HOPEFUL PUPILS10 min
10. XOLIVER 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 HISTORY8 min
11. XITREATS OF MR. FANG THE POLICE MAGISTRATE; AND FURNISHES A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF HIS MODE OF ADMINISTERING JUSTICE11 min
12. XIIIN 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 FRIENDS15 min
13. XIIISOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES ARE INTRODUCED TO THE INTELLIGENT READER, CONNECTED WITH WHOM VARIOUS PLEASANT MATTERS ARE RELATED, APPERTAINING TO THIS HISTORY12 min
14. XIVCOMPRISING 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 ERRAND17 min
15. XVSHOWING HOW VERY FOND OF OLIVER TWIST, THE MERRY OLD JEW AND MISS NANCY WERE10 min
16. XVIRELATES WHAT BECAME OF OLIVER TWIST, AFTER HE HAD BEEN CLAIMED BY NANCY15 min
17. XVIIOLIVER’S DESTINY CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS, BRINGS A GREAT MAN TO LONDON TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION14 min
18. XVIIIHOW OLIVER PASSED HIS TIME IN THE IMPROVING SOCIETY OF HIS REPUTABLE FRIENDS13 min
19. XIXIN WHICH A NOTABLE PLAN IS DISCUSSED AND DETERMINED ON15 min
20. XXWHEREIN OLIVER IS DELIVERED OVER TO MR. WILLIAM SIKES13 min
21. XXITHE EXPEDITION9 min
22. XXIITHE BURGLARY11 min
23. XXIIIWHICH CONTAINS THE SUBSTANCE OF A PLEASANT CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. BUMBLE AND A LADY; AND SHOWS THAT EVEN A BEADLE MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE ON SOME POINTS12 min
24. XXIVTREATS ON A VERY POOR SUBJECT, BUT IS A SHORT ONE, AND MAY BE FOUND OF IMPORTANCE IN THIS HISTORY9 min
25. XXVWHEREIN THIS HISTORY REVERTS TO MR. FAGIN AND COMPANY10 min
26. XXVIIN WHICH A MYSTERIOUS CHARACTER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE; AND MANY THINGS, INSEPARABLE FROM THIS HISTORY, ARE DONE AND PERFORMED19 min
27. XXVIIATONES FOR THE UNPOLITENESS OF A FORMER CHAPTER; WHICH DESERTED A LADY, MOST UNCEREMONIOUSLY11 min
28. XXVIIILOOKS AFTER OLIVER, AND PROCEEDS WITH HIS ADVENTURES15 min
29. XXIXHAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH OLIVER RESORTED6 min
30. XXXRELATES WHAT OLIVER’S NEW VISITORS THOUGHT OF HIM10 min
31. XXXIINVOLVES A CRITICAL POSITION17 min
32. XXXIIOF THE HAPPY LIFE OLIVER BEGAN TO LEAD WITH HIS KIND FRIENDS14 min
33. XXXIIIWHEREIN THE HAPPINESS OF OLIVER AND HIS FRIENDS, EXPERIENCES A SUDDEN CHECK14 min
34. XXXIVCONTAINS SOME INTRODUCTORY PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO NOW ARRIVES UPON THE SCENE; AND A NEW ADVENTURE WHICH HAPPENED TO OLIVER16 min
35. XXXVCONTAINING THE UNSATISFACTORY RESULT OF OLIVER’S ADVENTURE; AND A CONVERSATION OF SOME IMPORTANCE BETWEEN HARRY MAYLIE AND ROSE12 min
36. XXXVIIS 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 ARRIVES4 min
37. XXXVIIIN WHICH THE READER MAY PERCEIVE A CONTRAST, NOT UNCOMMON IN MATRIMONIAL CASES16 min
38. XXXVIIICONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE, AND MR. MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEW15 min
39. XXXIXINTRODUCES SOME RESPECTABLE CHARACTERS WITH WHOM THE READER IS ALREADY ACQUAINTED, AND SHOWS HOW MONKS AND THE JEW LAID THEIR WORTHY HEADS TOGETHER23 min
40. XLA STRANGE INTERVIEW, WHICH IS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST CHAMBER11 min
41. XLICONTAINING FRESH DISCOVERIES, AND SHOWING THAT SUPRISES, LIKE MISFORTUNES, SELDOM COME ALONE15 min
42. XLIIAN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF OLIVER’S, EXHIBITING DECIDED MARKS OF GENIUS, BECOMES A PUBLIC CHARACTER IN THE METROPOLIS16 min
43. XLIIIWHEREIN IS SHOWN HOW THE ARTFUL DODGER GOT INTO TROUBLE16 min
44. XLIVTHE TIME ARRIVES FOR NANCY TO REDEEM HER PLEDGE TO ROSE MAYLIE. SHE FAILS10 min
45. XLVNOAH CLAYPOLE IS EMPLOYED BY FAGIN ON A SECRET MISSION5 min
46. XLVITHE APPOINTMENT KEPT15 min
47. XLVIIFATAL CONSEQUENCES11 min
48. XLVIIITHE FLIGHT OF SIKES15 min
49. XLIXMONKS AND MR. BROWNLOW AT LENGTH MEET. THEIR CONVERSATION, AND THE INTELLIGENCE THAT INTERRUPTS IT15 min
50. LTHE PURSUIT AND ESCAPE18 min
51. LIAFFORDING AN EXPLANATION OF MORE MYSTERIES THAN ONE, AND COMPREHENDING A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE WITH NO WORD OF SETTLEMENT OR PIN-MONEY21 min
52. LIIFAGIN’S LAST NIGHT ALIVE14 min
53. LIIIAND LAST7 min

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