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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Estimated Length: 14 hours and 39 minutes (improve this estimation)
Synopsis
Oliver is an orphan leading a demoralized life. He is passed from orphanage to workhouse where he flees an abusive master for the streets of London. There is sucked into Fagin's gang. People plot to hide the truth about Oliver's parents and plan his downfall. In the end will compassion and truth surmount selfishness and deceit?
Table of Contents
Oliver Twist or The Parish Boy's Progress
Chapter 1: Treats of the Place where Oliver Twist was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth
Chapter 2: Treats of Oliver Twist's Growth, Education, and Board
Chapter 3: Relates How Oliver Twist was Very Near Getting a Place Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure
Chapter 4: Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry Into Public Life
Chapter 6: Oliver, Being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah, Rouses into Action, and Rather Astonishes Him
Chapter 7: Oliver Continues Refractory
Chapter 8: Oliver Walks to London. He Encounters on the Road a Strange Sort of Young Gentleman
Chapter 9: Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman, and his Hopeful Pupils
Chapter 15: Showing how Very Fond of Oliver Twist, The Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were
Chapter 16: Relates What Became of Oliver Twist, After he had been Claimed by Nancy
Chapter 17: Oliver's Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings a Great Man to London to Injure his Reputation
Chapter 18: How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of his Reputable Friends
Chapter 19: In Which a Notable Plan is Discussed and Determined On
Chapter 20: Wherein Oliver is Delivered Over to Mr. William Sikes
Chapter 21: The Expedition
Chapter 22: The Burglary
Chapter 23: Which Contains the Substance of a Pleasant Conversation Between Mr. Bumble and a Lady;
Chapter 24: Treats on a Very Poor Subject. But is a Short One, and May Be Found of Importance in this History
Chapter 25: Wherein this History Reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company
Chapter 27: Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter; Which Deserted a Lady, Most Unceremoniously
Chapter 28: Looks After Oliver, and Proceeds with his Adventures
Chapter 29: Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House, to Which Oliver Resorted
Chapter 30: Relates What Oliver's New Visitors Thought of Him
Chapter 31: Involves a Critical Position
Chapter 32: Of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with his Kind Friends
Chapter 33: Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and his Friends, Experiences a Sudden Check
Chapter 34: Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to a Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives upon The Scene;
Chapter 37: In Which the Reader may Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases
Chapter 39: Introduces Some Respectable Characters with whom the Reader is Already Acquainted
Chapter 40: A Strange Interview, Which is a Sequal to the Last Chamber
Chapter 41: Containing Fresh Discoveries, and Showing that Surprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone
Chapter 43: Wherein is Shown How The Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble
Chapter 44: The Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails.
Chapter 45: Noah Claypole is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission
Chapter 46: The Appointment Kept
Chapter 47: Fatal Consequences
Chapter 48: The Flight of Sikes
Chapter 49: Monks and Mr. Brownlow at Length Meet. Their Conversation, and the Intelligence that Interrupts It
Chapter 50: The Pursuit and Escape
Chapter 52: Fagin's Last Night Alive
Chapter 53: And Last
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