Oliver Twist

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Random House Publishing Group, May 31, 2005 - Fiction - 480 pages

Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape.

One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation–through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikes–of the vast London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickens to task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believable way, but readers over the last 150 years have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver Twist one of its author’s most loved works.

This edition reprints the original Everyman’s introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank.

 

Contents

CHAPTER I
1
CHAPTER III
14
CHAPTER IV
23
CHAPTER V
30
CHAPTER VI
41
Oliver walks to London He encounters on the road
53
CHAPTER IX
62
CHAPTER X
68
CHAPTER XXVII
207
CHAPTER XXIX
224
CHAPTER XXXI
235
CHAPTER XXXII
246
CHAPTER XXXIII
255
Contains some introductory particulars relative
264
CHAPTER XXXV
274
CHAPTER XXXVI
282

CHAPTER XII
81
CHAPTER XIII
91
CHAPTER XIV
99
CHAPTER XV
110
CHAPTER XVI
116
Olivers destiny continuing unpropitious brings
126
CHAPTER XVIII
136
CHAPTER XIX
144
CHAPTER XX
154
CHAPTER XXI
162
CHAPTER XXII
168
CHAPTER XXIII
175
CHAPTER XXIV
183
CHAPTER XXVI
195
CHAPTER XXXIX
306
CHAPTER XL
320
CHAPTER XLI
327
CHAPTER XLII
337
CHAPTER XLIII
348
CHAPTER XLIV
358
CHAPTER XLV
365
CHAPTER XLVII
379
CHAPTER XLVIII
386
CHAPTER XLIX
395
CHAPTER LI
416
CHAPTER LII
429
Bibliography
443
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About the author (2005)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, England, and spent most of his life in London. When he was twelve, his father was sent to debtor’s prison and he was forced to work in a boot polish factory, an experience that marked him for life. He became a passionate advocate of social reform and the most popular writer of the Victorian era.

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