Oliver TwistDickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic romance, the Newgate novel and popular melodrama, in Oliver Twist Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery. This is the first critical edition to use the serial text of 1837-9, presenting Oliver Twist as it appeared to its earliest readers. It includes Dickens's 1841 introduction and 1850 preface, the original illustrations and a glossary of contemporary slang. |
Contents
II | 13 |
III | 17 |
IV | 31 |
V | 44 |
VI | 53 |
X | 67 |
XI | 74 |
XII | 83 |
XLI | 307 |
XLII | 312 |
XLIII | 320 |
XLIV | 335 |
XLV | 347 |
XLVI | 358 |
XLVIII | 372 |
LI | 382 |
XIII | 95 |
XIV | 103 |
XIX | 110 |
XX | 120 |
XXI | 133 |
XXIII | 143 |
XXV | 157 |
XXVI | 166 |
XXVII | 179 |
XXVIII | 191 |
XXIX | 202 |
XXX | 214 |
XXXI | 225 |
XXXII | 233 |
XXXIII | 243 |
XXXV | 253 |
XXXVI | 260 |
XXXVII | 268 |
XXXIX | 284 |
XL | 294 |
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Common terms and phrases
Artful Dodger asked beadle Bedwin Bill Bill Sikes Blathers Bolter Brittles Brownlow Bumble's chair Charley Bates Charlotte Chertsey child Chitling Claypole Corney cried dark dear doctor Dodger door enquired exclaimed eyes face Fang Gamfield Giles glance Grimwig hand Harry head hear heard heart heerd housebreaker Jacob's Island John Dawkins laugh light looked Losberne ma'am Mann Master Bates matron Maylie mind Monks morning Nancy never night Noah nodded old gentleman old lady Oliver Twist Oliver's once pocket poor porochial public house rejoined replied Fagin replied Oliver replied Sikes replied the Jew returned Rose Rose Maylie round Saffron Hill seemed smile smock-frock Sowerberry speak stopped street tears tell there's thing thought tonight took turned voice waistcoat walked What's whispered window woman words workhouse young lady