Oliver Twist

1838

Dickens's second novel, serialised from 1837, following a workhouse orphan from the parish board to a London thieves' den. Oliver falls in with Fagin, the Artful Dodger, Bill Sikes and Nancy, and the book turns the machinery of the new Poor Law into a story that readers could not put down.

Chapter I
Chapter II Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII Oliver Continues Refractory
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI Relates What Became of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed by Nancy
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX In Which a Notable Plan Is Discussed and Determined On
Chapter XX Wherein Oliver Is Delivered over to Mr. William Sikes
Chapter XXI The Expedition
Chapter XXII The Burglary
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV Wherein This History Reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII Looks After Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX Relates What Oliver’s New Visitors Thought of Him
Chapter XXXI Involves a Critical Position
Chapter XXXII Of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with His Kind Friends
Chapter XXXIII
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
Chapter XXXVI
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXVIII
Chapter XXXIX
Chapter XL A Strange Interview, Which Is a Sequel to the Last Chamber
Chapter XLI
Chapter XLII
Chapter XLIII Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got into Trouble
Chapter XLIV The Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails
Chapter XLV Noah Claypole Is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission
Chapter XLVI The Appointment Kept
Chapter XLVII Fatal Consequences
Chapter XLVIII The Flight of Sikes
Chapter XLIX
Chapter L The Pursuit and Escape
Chapter LI
Chapter LII Fagin’s Last Night Alive
Chapter LIII And Last