Oliver Twist, Vol. 1 (of 3)
by Charles Dickens
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Contents
- Oliver Twist. Vol. I
- 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, and, Going to a Funeral for the First Time, 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, and 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. With Some Particulars Concerning a Certain Picture
- Chapter XIII. Reverts to the Merry Old Gentleman and His Youthful Friends, Through Whom a New Acquaintance Is Introduced to the Intelligent Reader, and Connected with Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are
- 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