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Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens, 1838

A-level set textAQA A-level (Lit B)

An orphan's search for care and belonging takes him from the workhouse towards the dangers of London.

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Length
53 chapters
Reading time
About 10 hr 57 min
Words
156,369

Contents

  1. Chapter 1: Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth5 min
  2. Chapter 2: Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board16 min
  3. Chapter 3: Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure13 min
  4. Chapter 4: Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry Into Public Life11 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 Business17 min
  6. Chapter 6: Oliver, Being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah, Rouses Into Action, and Rather Astonishes Him7 min
  7. Chapter 7: Oliver Continues Refractory10 min
  8. Chapter 8: Oliver Walks to London. He Encounters on the Road a Strange Sort of Young Gentleman13 min
  9. Chapter 9: Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman, and His Hopeful Pupils10 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 History7 min
  11. Chapter 11: Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and Furnishes a Slight Specimen of His Mode of Administering Justice11 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 Friends14 min
  13. Chapter 13: Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced to the Intelligent Reader, Connected with Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining to This History12 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 Errand17 min
  15. Chapter 15: Showing How Very Fond of Oliver Twist the Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were10 min
  16. Chapter 16: Relates What Became of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed by Nancy15 min
  17. Chapter 17: Oliver’s Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings a Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation13 min
  18. Chapter 18: How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of His Reputable Friends12 min
  19. Chapter 19: In Which a Notable Plan Is Discussed and Determined On14 min
  20. Chapter 20: Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over to Mr. William Sikes12 min
  21. Chapter 21: The Expedition9 min
  22. Chapter 22: The Burglary10 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 Points11 min
  24. Chapter 24: Treats on a Very Poor Subject. But Is a Short One, and May Be Found of Importance in This History8 min
  25. Chapter 25: Wherein This History Reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company9 min
  26. Chapter 26: In Which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene; and Many Things, Inseparable from This History, Are Done and Performed19 min
  27. Chapter 27: Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter; Which Deserted a Lady, Most Unceremoniously10 min
  28. Chapter 28: Looks After Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures14 min
  29. Chapter 29: Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House, to Which Oliver Resorted6 min
  30. Chapter 30: Relates What Oliver’s New Visitors Thought of Him10 min
  31. Chapter 31: Involves a Critical Position17 min
  32. Chapter 32: Of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with His Kind Friends14 min
  33. Chapter 33: Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and His Friends Experiences a Sudden Check14 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 Oliver15 min
  35. Chapter 35: Containing the Unsatisfactory Result of Oliver’s Adventure; and a Conversation of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie and Rose12 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 Arrives4 min
  37. Chapter 37: In Which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases15 min
  38. Chapter 38: Containing an Account of What Passed Between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at Their Nocturnal Interview15 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 Together22 min
  40. Chapter 40: A Strange Interview, Which Is a Sequel to the Last Chapter11 min
  41. Chapter 41: Containing Fresh Discoveries, and Showing That Surprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone15 min
  42. Chapter 42: An Old Acquaintance of Oliver’s, Exhibiting Decided Marks of Genius, Becomes a Public Character in the Metropolis15 min
  43. Chapter 43: Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble16 min
  44. Chapter 44: The Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails10 min
  45. Chapter 45: Noah Claypole Is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission5 min
  46. Chapter 46: The Appointment Kept15 min
  47. Chapter 47: Fatal Consequences10 min
  48. Chapter 48: The Flight of Sikes14 min
  49. Chapter 49: Monks and Mr. Brownlow at Length Meet. Their Conversation, and the Intelligence That Interrupts It15 min
  50. Chapter 50: The Pursuit and Escape18 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-Money20 min
  52. Chapter 52: Fagin’s Last Night Alive14 min
  53. Chapter 53: And Last6 min
  54. Endnotes1 min