Oliver Twist

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 10, 2012 - Fiction - 432 pages

This darkest and most colorfully grotesque of Charles Dickens’s novels swirls around one of his most beloved and unsullied heroes, the orphan Oliver Twist.

One of the most swiftly moving and unified of 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 nineteenth-century 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 century and a half have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver one of its author’s most loved works.

 

Contents

Treats of the Place where Oliver Twist was Born
3
Relates how Oliver Twist was very near getting
16
Oliver being offered another Place makes his first
24
Oliver mingles with new Associates Going to
31
Oliver being goaded by the Taunts of Noah
41
Oliver walks to London He encounters on
52
Containing further Particulars concerning
60
Oliver becomes better aquainted with
66
may be found of Importance in this History
173
Wherein this History reverts to Mr Fagin and Company
179
In which a mysterious Character appears upon
185
Atones for the Unpoliteness of a former Chapter
196
Looks after Oliver and proceeds with his Adventures
203
Has an introductory Account of the Inmates of
212
Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and his Friends
241
Contains some introductory Particulars relative to
249

Treats of Mr Fang the Police Magistrate
71
In which Oliver is taken better Care of than he ever
78
Some new Acquaintances are introduced to
87
Comprising further Particulars of Olivers Stay
95
Showing how very fond of Oliver Twist
105
Relates what became of Oliver Twist afer he
111
Olivers Destiny continuing unpropitious brings
120
How Oliver passed his Time in the improving
129
In which a notable Plan is discussed and determined on
137
Wherein Oliver is delivered to Mr William Sikes
146
The Expedition
154
Which contains the Substance of a pleasant
166
Containing the unsatisfactory Result of Olivers
258
Is a very short one and may appear of no great
266
Containing an Account of what passed between
279
A strange Interview which is a Sequel to
302
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An old Acqaintance of Olivers exhibiting decided
318
The Time arrives for Nancy to redeem her Pledge
338
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348
Fatal Consequences
357
Monks and Mr Brownlow at length meet Their
372
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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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