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Table of Contents

Cover
Title page(p. 1)
Copyright(p. 2)
Table of Contents(pp. 3-4)
I. Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth(pp. 5-8)
II. Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board(pp. 9-21)
III. Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure(pp. 22-32)
IV. Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry Into Public Life(pp. 33-43)
V. Oliver Mingles with New Associates(pp. 44-57)
VI. Oliver, Being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah, Rouses Into Action, and Rather Astonishes Him(pp. 58-63)
VII. Oliver Continues Refractory(pp. 64-71)
VIII. Oliver Walks to London. He Encounters on the Road a Strange Sort of Young Gentleman(pp. 72-85)
IX. Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman, and His Hopeful Pupils(pp. 86-93)
Oliver Becomes Better Acquainted with the Characters of His New Associates; and Purchases Experience at a High Price. Be(pp. 94-100)
XI. Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and Furnishes a Slight Specimen of His Mode of Administering Justice(pp. 101-110)
XII. In Which Oliver Is Taken Better Care of Than He Ever Was Before. And in Which the Narrative Reverts to the Merry Ol(pp. 111-123)
XIII. Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced to the Intelligent Reader, Connected with Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are(pp. 124-135)
XIV. Comprising Further Particulars of Oliver’s Stay at Mr. Brownlow’s, with the Remarkable Prediction Which One Mr. Gri(pp. 136-149)
XV. Showing How Very Fond of Oliver Twist the Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were(pp. 150-158)
XVI. Relates What Became of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed by Nancy(pp. 159-170)
XVII. Oliver’s Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings a Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation(pp. 171-183)
XVIII. How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of His Reputable Friends(pp. 184-193)
XIX. In Which a Notable Plan Is Discussed and Determined On(pp. 194-205)
XX. Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over to Mr. William Sikes(pp. 206-215)
XXI. The Expedition(pp. 216-222)
XXII. The Burglary(pp. 223-231)
XXIII. Which Contains the Substance of a Pleasant Conversation Between Mr. Bumble and a Lady; and Shows That Even a Bead(pp. 232-241)
XXIV. Treats on a Very Poor Subject(pp. 242-248)
XXV(pp. 249-256)
XXVI. In Which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene; and Many Things, Inseparable from This History, Are Done a(pp. 257-273)
XXVII. Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter; Which Deserted a Lady, Most Unceremoniously(pp. 274-282)
Chapter XXVIII(pp. 283-294)
XXIX. Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House, to Which Oliver Resorted(pp. 295-301)
XXX. Relates What Oliver’s New Visitors Thought of Him(pp. 302-309)
XXXI. Involves a Critical Position(pp. 310-322)
XXXII. Of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with His Kind Friends(pp. 323-333)
XXXIII. Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and His Friends Experiences a Sudden Check(pp. 334-347)
XXXIV. Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to a Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives Upon the Scene; and a New Ad(pp. 348-359)
XXXV. Containing the Unsatisfactory Result of Oliver’s Adventure; and a Conversation of Some Importance Between Harry Ma(pp. 360-368)
XXXVI(pp. 369-372)
XXXVII. In Which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases(pp. 373-386)
XXXVIII(pp. 387-401)
XXXIX. Introduces Some Respectable Characters with Whom the Reader Is Already Acquainted, and Shows How Monks and the Je(pp. 402-422)
XL. A Strange Interview, Which Is a Sequel to the Last Chapter(pp. 423-431)
XLI(pp. 432-445)
XLII. An Old Acquaintance of Oliver’s, Exhibiting Decided Marks of Genius, Becomes a Public Character in the Metropolis(pp. 446-459)
XLIII. Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble(pp. 460-473)
XLIV. The Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails(pp. 474-482)
Chapter XLV. Noah Claypole Is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission(pp. 483-487)
XLVI. The Appointment Kept(pp. 488-501)
XLVII. Fatal Consequences(pp. 502-512)
XLVIII. The Flight of Sikes(pp. 513-523)
XLIX. Monks and Mr. Brownlow at Length Meet. Their Conversation, and the Intelligence That Interrupts It(pp. 524-536)
The Pursuit and Escape(pp. 537-550)
LI. Affording an Explanation of More Mysteries Than One, and Comprehending a Proposal of Marriage with No Word of Settle(pp. 551-567)
LII. Fagin’s Last Night Alive(pp. 568-581)
LIII. And Last(pp. 582-586)
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