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OLIVER

TWIST

Charles Dickens

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OLIVER TWIST

Charles Dickens

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Contents
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Chapter 1.  Treats Of The Place Where Oliver Twist
Was Born; And Of The Circumstances Attending His
Birth..........................................................................................................9
Chapter 2.  Treats Of Oliver Twist’s Growth,
Education, And Board..........................................................................13
Chapter 3.  Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near
Getting A Place, Which Would Not Have Been A
Sinecure. ................................................................................................27
Chapter 4.  Oliver, Being Offered Another Place,
Makes His First Entry Into Public Life. ............................................38
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...............................47
Chapter 6.  Oliver, Being Goaded By The Taunts Of
Noah, Rouses Into Action, And Rather Astonishes Him. ...............61
Chapter 7.  Oliver Continues Refractory. .........................................68
Chapter 8.  Oliver Walks To London—He Encounters
On The Road A Strange Sort Of Young Gentleman........................77
Chapter 9.  Containing Further Particulars Concerning
The Pleasant Old Gentleman, And His Hopeful Pupils..................88
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

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Important Chapter In This History....................................................96
Chapter 11.  Treats Of Mr. Fang The Police Magistrate;
And Furnishes A Slight Specimen Of His Mode Of
Administering Justice. .......................................................................103
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..........................................................................113
Chapter 13.  Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced
To The Intelligent Reader, Connected With Whom,
Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining To
This History. ........................................................................................125
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...................136
Chapter 15.  Showing How Very Fond Of Oliver Twist,
The Merry Old Jew And Miss Nancy Were. ...................................150
Chapter 16.  Relates What Became Of Oliver Twist,
After He Had Been Claimed By Nancy...........................................159
Chapter 17.  Oliver’s destiny continuing unpropitious,
brings a great man to London to injure his reputation.................172
Chapter 18.  How Oliver Passed His Time In The
Improving Society Of His Reputable Friends. ...............................184
Chapter 19.  In Which A Notable Plan Is Discussed
And Determined On. ..........................................................................195

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Chapter 20.  Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over To Mr.
William Sikes.......................................................................................208
Chapter 21.  The Expedition.............................................................219
Chapter 22.  The Burglary. ...............................................................227
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.............................................................236
Chapter 24.  Treats Of A Very Poor Subject—But Is A
Short One, And May Be Found Of Importance In This
History. .................................................................................................246
Chapter 25.  Wherein This History Reverts To Mr.
Fagin And Company...........................................................................254
Chapter 26.  In Which A Mysterious Character Appears
Upon The Scene; And Many Things, Inseparable From
This History, Are Done And Performed..........................................262
Chapter 27.  Atones For The Unpoliteness Of A Former
Chapter, Which Deserted A Lady Most
Unceremoniously................................................................................278
Chapter 28.  Looks After Oliver, And Proceeds With
His Adventures....................................................................................288
Chapter 29.  Has An Introductory Account Of The
Inmates Of The House, To Which Oliver Resorted. ......................301
Chapter 30.  Relates What Oliver’s New Visitors
Thought Of Him. .................................................................................306
Chapter 31.  Involves A Critical Position........................................315

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Chapter 32.  Of The Happy Life Oliver Began To Lead
With His Kind Friends.......................................................................329
Chapter 33.  Wherein The Happiness Of Oliver And His
Friends, Experiences A Sudden Check...........................................341
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. ..........................................................................352
Chapter 35.  Containing The Unsatisfactory Result Of
Oliver’s Adventure; And A Conversation Of Some
Importance Between Harry Maylie And Rose. ..............................365
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. ......................................375
Chapter 37.  In Which The Reader May Perceive A
Contrast, Not Uncommon In Matrimonial Cases. .........................379
Chapter 38.  Containing An Account Of What Passed
Between Mr. And Mrs. Bumble, And Mr. Monks, At
Their Nocturnal Interview. ...............................................................392
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...................................................................................405
Chapter 40.  A Strange Interview, Which Is A Sequel
To The Last Chapter. .........................................................................424
Chapter 41.  Containing Fresh Discoveries, And

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Showing That Surprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom
Come Alone..........................................................................................433
Chapter 42.  An Old Acquaintance Of Oliver’s,
Exhibiting Decided Marks Of Genius, Becomes A
Public Character In The Metropolis................................................446
Chapter 43.  Wherein Is Shown How The Artful
Dodger Got Into Trouble. ..................................................................460
Chapter 44.  The Time Arrives For Nancy To Redeem
Her Pledge To Rose Maylie—She Fails...........................................474
Chapter 45.  Noah Claypole Is Employed By Fagin On
A Secret Mission. ................................................................................483
Chapter 46.  The Appointment Kept...............................................488
Chapter 47.  Fatal Consequences.....................................................501
Chapter 48.  The Flight Of Sikes......................................................510
Chapter 49.  Monks And Mr. Brownlow At Length
Meet—Their Conversation, And The Intelligence That
Interrupts It. ........................................................................................522
Chapter 50.  The Pursuit And Escape.............................................535
Chapter 51.  Affording an explanation of more
mysteries than one, and comprehending a proposal of
marriage with no word of settlement or pin-money......................550
Chapter 52.  Fagin’s Last Night Alive .............................................567
Chapter 53.  And Last........................................................................578

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Chapter 1

Treats Of The Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born;

And Of The Circumstances Attending His Birth.

mong 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,

there is one anciently 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 trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can

be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the

business at all events, the item of mortality whose name is

prefixed to the head of this chapter.

For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow

and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of

considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any

name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that

these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that

being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have

possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and

faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age

or country.

Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a

workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable

circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to

say that in this particular instance, it was the best thing for Oliver

Twist that could by possibility have occurred. The fact is, that

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there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon

himself the office of respiration—a troublesome practice, but one

which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and

for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather

unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance

being decidedly in favour of the latter. Now, if, during this brief

period, Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers,

anxious aunts, experienced nurses, and doctors of profound

wisdom, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been

killed in no time. There being nobody by, however, but a pauper

old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted

allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by

contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.

The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed,

sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of the

workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon

the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have

been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of

that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of

time than three minutes and a quarter.

As Oliver gave this first proof of the free and proper action of

his lungs, the patchwork coverlet which was carelessly flung over

the iron bedstead rustled; the pale face of a young woman was

raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly

articulated the words, “Let me see the child, and die.”

The surgeon had been sitting with his face turned towards the

fire, giving the palms of his hands a warm and a rub alternately.

As the young woman spoke, he rose, and advancing to the bed’s

head, said, with more kindness than might have been expected of

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