Oliver Twist Book

	Introduction	xv
	Chronology	xxxi
	The Author's Preface to the Third Edition (1841)	xxxv
Chapter 1	Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was born, and of the circumstances attending his birth	1
Chapter 2	Treats of Oliver Twist's growth, education, and board	5
Chapter 3	Relates how Oliver Twist was very near getting a place, which would not have been a sinecure	17
Chapter 4	Oliver, being offered another place, makes his first entry into public life	27
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	35
Chapter 6	Oliver, being goaded by the taunts of Noah, rouses into action, and rather astonishes him	47
Chapter 7	Oliver continues refractory	53
Chapter 8	Oliver walks to London. He encounters on the road a strange sort of young gentleman	61
Chapter 9	Containing further particulars concerning the pleasant old gentleman, and his hopeful pupils	71
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	79
Chapter 11	Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and furnishes a slight specimen of his mode of administering justice	85
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	95
Chapter 13	Some new acquaintances are introduced to the intelligent reader, connected with whom, various pleasant matters are related, appertaining to this history	105
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	115
Chapter 15	Showing how very fond of Oliver Twist, the merry old Jew and Miss Nancy were	127
Chapter 16	Relates what became of Oliver Twist, after he had been claimed by Nancy	135
Chapter 17	Oliver's destiny continuing unpropitious, brings a great man to London to injure his reputation	147
Chapter 18	How Oliver passed his time in the improving society of his reputable friends	157
Chapter 19	In which a notable plan is discussed and determined on	167
Chapter 20	Wherein Oliver is delivered over to Mr. William Sikes	179
Chapter 21	The Expedition	189
Chapter 22	The Burglary	197
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	205
Chapter 24	Treats of a very poor subject. But is a short one, and may be found of importance in this history	213
Chapter 25	Wherein this history reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company	221
Chapter 26	In which a mysterious character appears upon the scene; and many things, inseparable from this history, are done and performed	229
Chapter 27	Atones for the unpoliteness of a former chapter; which deserted a lady, most unceremoniously	243
Chapter 28	Looks after Oliver, and proceeds with his adventures	251
Chapter 29	Has an introductory account of the inmates of the house, to which Oliver resorted	261
Chapter 30	Relates what Oliver's new visitors thought of him	267
Chapter 31	Involves a critical position	275
Chapter 32	Of the happy life Oliver began to lead with his kind friends	287
Chapter 33	Wherein the happiness of Oliver and his friends, experiences a sudden check	297
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	307
Chapter 35	Containing the unsatisfactory result of Oliver's adventure; and a conversation of some importance between Harry Maylie and Rose	319
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	327
Chapter 37	In which the reader may perceive a contrast, not uncommon in matrimonial cases	331
Chapter 38	Containing an account of what passed between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at their nocturnal interview	343
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	355
Chapter 40	A strange interview, which is a sequel to the last chapter	371
Chapter 41	Containing fresh discoveries, and showing that surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone	379
Chapter 42	An old acquaintance of Oliver's, exhibiting decided marks of genius, becomes a public character in the metropolis	391
Chapter 43	Wherein is shown how the Artful Dodger got into trouble	403
Chapter 44	The time arrives for Nancy to redeem her pledge to Rose Maylie. She fails	415
Chapter 45	Noah Claypole is employed by Fagin on a secret mission	423
Chapter 46	The Appointment kept	427
Chapter 47	Fatal Consequences	439
Chapter 48	The Flight of Sikes	447
Chapter 49	Monks and Mr. Brownlow at length meet. Their conversation, and the intelligence that interrupts it	457
Chapter 50	The Pursuit and Escape	469
Chapter 51	Affording an explanation of more mysteries than one, and comprehending a proposal of marriage with no word of settlement or pin-money	483
Chapter 52	Fagin's last night alive	497
Chapter 53	And Last	507