THE STORY OF LONDON: Charles Dickens' Perspective in 11 Novels & 80+ Short Stories (Illustrated Edition). Charles Dickens

Table of Contents

       Chapter I.Treats of the Place where Oliver Twist was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth

       Chapter II.Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board

       Chapter III.Relates how Oliver Twist was very near Getting a Place which would not have been a Sinecure

       Chapter IV.Oliver, being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry into Public Life

       Chapter V.Oliver Mingles with New Associates. Going to a Funeral for the First Time, He Forms an Unfavourable Notion of his Master’s Business

       Chapter VI.Oliver, being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah, Rouses into Action, and Rather Astonishes Him

       Chapter VII.Oliver Continues Refractory

       Chapter VIII. Oliver Walks to London. He Encounters on the Road a Strange Sort of Young Gentleman

       Chapter IX. Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman, and His Hopeful Pupils

       Chapter X. Oliver Becomes Better Acquainted with the Characters of His New Associates; and Purchases Experience at a High Price. Being a Short, but Very Important Chapter, in this History

       Chapter XI. Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and Furnishes a Slight Specimen of His Mode of Administering Justice

       Chapter XII. In which Oliver is Taken Better Care of than He Ever was Before. And in which the Narrative Reverts to the Merry Old Gentleman and His Youthful Friends.

       Chapter XIII. Some New Acquaintances are Introduced to the Intelligent Reader, Connected with whom Various Pleasant Matters are Related, Appertaining to this History

       Chapter XIV. Comprising Further Particulars of Oliver’s Stay at Mr. Brownlow’s, with the Remarkable Prediction which One Mr. Grimwig Uttered Concerning Him, when He Went Out on an Errand

       Chapter XV. Showing How Very Fond of Oliver Twist, the Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were

       Chapter XVI. Relates what Became of Oliver Twist, After he had been Claimed by Nancy

       Chapter XVII. Oliver’s Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings a Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation

       Chapter XVIII. How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of His Reputable Friends

       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. Which Contains the Substance of a Pleasant Conversation Between Mr. Bumble and a Lady; And Shows that Even a Beadle May Be Susceptible on some Points

       Chapter XXIV. Treats on a Very Poor Subject. But is a Short One, and May Be Found of Importance in this History

       Chapter XXV Wherein this History Reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company

       Chapter XXVI. In which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene; And Many Things, Inseparable from this History, are Done and Performed

       Chapter XXVII. Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter; Which Deserted a Lady, Most Unceremoniously

       Chapter XXVIII. Looks after Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures

       Chapter XXIX. Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House, to which Oliver Resorted

       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. Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and His Friends, Experiences a Sudden Check

       Chapter XXXIV. Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to a Young Gentleman who Now Arrives Upon THE Scene; And a New Adventure which Happened to Oliver

       Chapter XXXV. Containing the Unsatisfactory Result of Oliver’s Adventure; And a Conversation of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie and Rose

       Chapter XXXVI. Is a Very Short One, and May Appear of No Great Importance in Its Place, but It Should be Read Notwithstanding, as a Sequel to the Last, and a Key to One That Will Follow When Its Time Arrives

       Chapter XXXVII. In which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases

       Chapter XXXVIII. Containing an Account of What Passed Between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at Their Nocturnal Interview