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Oliver Twist, Vol. 1 (of 3) — Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist, Vol. 1 (of 3)

Charles Dickens

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 163 pages

Oliver Twist, the first volume of Charles Dickens’s novel, follows an orphan from his birth in a workhouse through early hardships. In London he encounters Fagin and a group of young pickpockets, and the story explores poverty, cruelty, and innocence. It is worth listening for its memorable characters and Dickens’s social sympathy.

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Opening of the book

OLIVER TWIST.
VOL. I.
NEW WORK BY “BOZ.”
———
BARNABY RUDGE:
BY “BOZ.”
Which will be published forthwith in BŧƿǵƯŧΏ’Ǫ MƗǪŕŧƯƯĵƿΏ.
Fagin and the boys meet Oliver
Oliver’s reception by Fagin and the boys.
OLIVER TWIST.
BY
CHARLES DICKENS.
AUTHOR OF “THE PICKWICK PAPERS.”

SECOND EDITION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

————

1839.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,

Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

OLIVER TWIST.

CHAPTER I.

TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS

BORN, AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING

HIS BIRTH.

AƽLjƿƄ other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, it boasts of one which is common to most towns, great or small, to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born, on a day and date which I need not take upon myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to

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Contents

  1. OLIVER TWIST. VOL. I.
  2. CHAPTER I. TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN, AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH.
  3. CHAPTER II. TREATS OF OLIVER TWIST’S GROWTH, EDUCATION, AND BOARD.
  4. CHAPTER III. RELATES HOW OLIVER TWIST WAS VERY NEAR GETTING A PLACE, WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A SINECURE.
  5. CHAPTER IV. OLIVER, BEING OFFERED ANOTHER PLACE, MAKES HIS FIRST ENTRY INTO PUBLIC LIFE.
  6. CHAPTER V. OLIVER MINGLES WITH NEW ASSOCIATES, AND, GOING TO A FUNERAL FOR THE FIRST TIME, FORMS AN UNFAVOURABLE NOTION
  7. CHAPTER VI. OLIVER, BEING GOADED BY THE TAUNTS OF NOAH, ROUSES INTO ACTION, AND RATHER ASTONISHES HIM.
  8. CHAPTER VII. OLIVER CONTINUES REFRACTORY.
  9. CHAPTER VIII OLIVER WALKS TO LONDON, AND ENCOUNTERS ON THE ROAD A STRANGE SORT OF YOUNG GENTLEMAN.
  10. CHAPTER IX. CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD GENTLEMAN, AND HIS HOPEFUL PUPILS.
  11. CHAPTER X OLIVER BECOMES BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH THE CHARACTERS OF HIS NEW ASSOCIATES, AND PURCHASES EXPERIENCE AT A HIGH
  12. CHAPTER XI. TREATS OF MR. FANG THE POLICE MAGISTRATE, AND FURNISHES A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF HIS MODE OF ADMINISTERING JUSTI
  13. CHAPTER XII. IN WHICH OLIVER IS TAKEN BETTER CARE OF THAN HE EVER WAS BEFORE. WITH SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING A CERTAIN
  14. CHAPTER XIII. REVERTS TO THE MERRY OLD GENTLEMAN AND HIS YOUTHFUL FRIENDS, THROUGH WHOM A NEW ACQUAINTANCE IS INTRODUCED
  15. CHAPTER XIV. COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER’S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW’S, WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE
  16. CHAPTER XV. SHOWING HOW VERY FOND OF OLIVER TWIST, THE MERRY OLD JEW AND MISS NANCY WERE.
  17. CHAPTER XVI. RELATES WHAT BECAME OF OLIVER TWIST, AFTER HE HAD BEEN CLAIMED BY NANCY.
  18. CHAPTER XVII. OLIVER’S DESTINY CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS, BRINGS A GREAT MAN TO LONDON TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION.
  19. CHAPTER XVIII. HOW OLIVER PASSED HIS TIME IN THE IMPROVING SOCIETY OF HIS REPUTABLE FRIENDS.
  20. CHAPTER XIX. IN WHICH A NOTABLE PLAN IS DISCUSSED AND DETERMINED ON.
  21. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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