Oliver Twist or, the Parish Boy's Progress by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

or, 

the Parish Boy's Progress

by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist, first edition 1838
Design by George Cruikshank

Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838.

The story is about an orphan boy called Oliver Twist, who escapes from a workhouse and travels to London.
In London he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin, naively unaware of their unlawful activities.

Novel Contents :

1. Chapter 1: Treats Of The Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born And Of The Circumstances Attending His Birth.
2. Chapter 2: Treats Of Oliver Twist's Growth, Education, And Board.
3. Chapter 3: Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting A Place Which Would Not Have Been A Sinecure.
4. Chapter 4: Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry Into Public Life.
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.
6. Chapter 6: Oliver, Being Goaded By The Taunts Of Noah, Rouses Into Action, And Rather Astonishes Him.
7. Chapter 7: Oliver Continues Refractory.
8. Chapter 8: Oliver Walks To London. He Encounters On The Road A Strange Sort Of Young Gentleman.
9. Chapter 9: Containing Further Particulars Concerning The Pleasant Old Gentleman, And His Hopeful Pupils
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
11. Chapter 11: Treats Of Mr. Fang The Police Magistrate; And Furnishes A Slight Specimen Of His Mode Of Administering Justice
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.
13. Chapter 13: Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced To The Intelligent Reader, Connected With Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining To This History
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
15. Chapter 15: Showing How Very Fond Of Oliver Twist, The Merry Old Jew And Miss Nancy Were
16. Chapter 16: Relates What Became Of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed By Nancy.
17. Chapter 17: Oliver's Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings A Great Man To London To Injure His Reputation
18. Chapter 18: How Oliver Passed His Time In The Improving Society Of His Reputable Friends
19. Chapter 19: In Which A Notable Plan Is Discussed And Determined On
20. Chapter 20: Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over To Mr. William Sikes
21. Chapter 21: The Expedition
22. Chapter 22: The Burglary
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
24. Chapter 24: Treats On A Very Poor Subject. But Is A Short One, And May Be Found Of Importance In This History
25. Chapter 25: Wherein This History Reverts To Mr. Fagin And Company
26. Chapter 26: In Which A Mysterious Character Appears Upon The Scene; And Many Things, Inseparable From This History, Are Done And Performed
27. Chapter 27: Atones For The Unpoliteness Of A Former Chapter; Which Deserted A Lady, Most Unceremoniously
28. Chapter 28: Looks After Oliver, And Proceeds With His Adventures
29. Chapter 29: Has An Introductory Account Of The Inmates Of The House, To Which Oliver Resorted
30. Chapter 30: Relates What Oliver's New Visitors Thought Of Him
31. Chapter 31: Involves A Critical Position
32. Chapter 32: Of The Happy Life Oliver Began To Lead With His Kind Friends
33. Chapter 33: Wherein The Happiness Of Oliver And His Friends, Experiences A Sudden Check
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
35. Chapter 35: Containing The Unsatisfactory Result Of Oliver's Adventure; And A Conversation Of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie And Rose
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
37. Chapter 37: In Which The Reader May Perceive A Contrast, Not Uncommon In Matrimonial Cases
38. Chapter 38: Containing An Account Of What Passed Between Mr. And Mrs. Bumble, And Mr. Monks, At Their Nocturnal Interview
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
40. Chapter 40: A Strange Interview, Which Is A Sequel To The Last Chamber
41. Chapter 41: Containing Fresh Discoveries, And Showing That Surprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone
42. Chapter 42: An Old Acquaintance Of Oliver's, Exhibiting Decided Marks Of Genius, Becomes A Public Character In The Metropolis
43. Chapter 43: Wherein Is Shown How The Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble
44. Chapter 44: The Time Arrives For Nancy To Redeem Her Pledge To Rose Maylie. She Fails.
45. Chapter 45: Noah Claypole Is Employed By Fagin On A Secret Mission
46. Chapter 46: The Appointment Kept
47. Chapter 47: Fatal Consequences
48. Chapter 48: The Flight Of Sikes
49. Chapter 49: Monks And Mr. Brownlow At Length Meet. Their Conversation, And The Intelligence That Interrupts It
50. Chapter 50: The Pursuit And Escape
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.
52. Chapter 52: Fagin's Last Night Alive
53. Chapter 53: And Last.

Oliver Twist or, the Parish Boy's Progress novel by Charles Dickens