Oliver Twist

1 Chapter 1: Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth About 5 min 2 Chapter 2: Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board About 15 min 3 Chapter 3: Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure About 15 min 4 Chapter 4: Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry into Public Life About 10 min 5 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 About 15 min 6 Chapter 6: Oliver, Being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah, Rouses into Action, and Rather Astonishes Him About 5 min 7 Chapter 7: Oliver Continues Refractory About 10 min 8 Chapter 8: Oliver Walks to London. He Encounters on the Road a Strange Sort of Young Gentleman About 15 min 9 Chapter 9: Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman, and His Hopeful Pupils About 10 min 10 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 About 10 min 11 Chapter 11: Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and Furnishes a Slight Specimen of His Mode of Administering Justice About 10 min 12 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 About 15 min 13 Chapter 13: Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced to the Intelligent Reader, Connected with Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining to This History About 10 min 14 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 About 15 min 15 Chapter 15: Showing How Very Fond of Oliver Twist, the Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were About 10 min 16 Chapter 16: Relates What Became of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed by Nancy About 15 min 17 Chapter 17: Oliver’s Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings a Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation About 15 min 18 Chapter 18: How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of His Reputable Friends About 15 min 19 Chapter 19: In Which a Notable Plan Is Discussed and Determined on About 15 min 20 Chapter 20: Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over to Mr. William Sikes About 15 min 21 Chapter 21: The Expedition About 10 min 22 Chapter 22: The Burglary About 10 min 23 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 About 10 min 24 Chapter 24: Treats on a Very Poor Subject, but Is a Short One, and May Be Found of Importance in This History About 10 min 25 Chapter 25: Wherein This History Reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company About 10 min 26 Chapter 26: In Which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene; and Many Things, Inseparable from This History, Are Done and Performed About 20 min 27 Chapter 27: Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter; Which Deserted a Lady, Most Unceremoniously About 10 min 28 Chapter 28: Looks After Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures About 15 min 29 Chapter 29: Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House, to Which Oliver Resorted About 5 min 30 Chapter 30: Relates What Oliver’s New Visitors Thought of Him About 10 min 31 Chapter 31: Involves a Critical Position About 15 min 32 Chapter 32: Of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with His Kind Friends About 15 min 33 Chapter 33: Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and His Friends, Experiences a Sudden Check About 15 min 34 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 About 15 min 35 Chapter 35: Containing the Unsatisfactory Result of Oliver’s Adventure; and a Conversation of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie and Rose About 10 min 36 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 About 5 min 37 Chapter 37: In Which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases About 15 min 38 Chapter 38: Containing an Account of What Passed Between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at Their Nocturnal Interview About 15 min 39 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 About 25 min 40 Chapter 40: A Strange Interview, Which Is a Sequel to the Last Chamber About 10 min 41 Chapter 41: Containing Fresh Discoveries, and Showing That Suprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone About 15 min 42 Chapter 42: An Old Acquaintance of Oliver’s, Exhibiting Decided Marks of Genius, Becomes a Public Character in the Metropolis About 15 min 43 Chapter 43: Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got into Trouble About 15 min 44 Chapter 44: The Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails About 10 min 45 Chapter 45: Noah Claypole Is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission About 5 min 46 Chapter 46: The Appointment Kept About 15 min 47 Chapter 47: Fatal Consequences About 10 min 48 Chapter 48: The Flight of Sikes About 15 min 49 Chapter 49: Monks and Mr. Brownlow at Length Meet. Their Conversation, and the Intelligence That Interrupts It About 15 min 50 Chapter 50: The Pursuit and Escape About 20 min 51 Chapter 51: Affording an Explanation of More Mysteries Than One, and Comprehending a Proposal of Marriage with No Word of Settlement or Pin-Money About 20 min 52 Chapter 52: Fagin’s Last Night Alive About 15 min 53 Chapter 53: And Last About 5 min