1 Chapter 1 Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born; and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth 6 Chapter 2 Treats of Oliver Twists Growth, Education, and Board 20 Chapter 3 Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place, Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure 31 Chapter 4 Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry into Public Life 40 Chapter 5 Oliver Mingles with New Associates. Going to a Funeral for the First Time, He Forms an Unfavourable Notion of His Master's Business 53 Chapter 6 Oliver, Being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah, Rouses into Action, and Rather Astonishes Him 59 Chapter 7 Oliver Continues Refractory 67 Chapter 8 Oliver Walks to London. He Encounters on the Road, a Strange Sort of Young Gentleman 78 Chapter 9 Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman, and His Hopeful Pupils 86 Chapter 10 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 92 Chapter 11 Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and Furnishes a Slight Specimen of His Mode of Administering Justice 101 Chapter 12 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. 112 Chapter 13 Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced to the Intelligent Reader; Connected with Whom, Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining to This History 122 Chapter 14 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 134 Chapter 15 Showing How Very Fond of Oliver Twist, the Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were 142 Chapter 16 Relates What Became of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed by Nancy 153 Chapter 17 Oliver's Destiny, Continuing Unpropitious, Brings a Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation 164 Chapter 18 How Oliver Passed His Time, in the Improving Society of His Reputable Friends 174 Chapter 19 In Which a Notable Plan Is Discussed and Determined on 185 Chapter 20 Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over to Mr. William Sikes 194 Chapter 21 The Expedition 201 Chapter 22 The Burglary 209 Chapter 23 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 218 Chapter 24 Treats on a Very Poor Subject. But Is a Short One; and May Be Found of Importance in This History 225 Chapter 25 Wherein This History Reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company 233 Chapter 26 In Which, a Mysterious Character Appears upon the Scene; and Many Things, Inseparable from This History, Are Done and Performed 247 Chapter 27 Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter; Which Deserted a Lady, Most Unceremoniously 256 Chapter 28 Looks After Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures 267 Chapter 29 Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House, to Which Oliver Resorted 273 Chapter 30 Relates What Oliver's New Visitors Thought of Him 281 Chapter 31 Involves a Critical Position 294 Chapter 32 Of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with His Kind Friends 304 Chapter 33 Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and His Friends, Experiences a Sudden Check 314 Chapter 34 Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to a Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives upon the Scene; and a New Adventure Which Happened to Oliver 326 Chapter 35 Containing the Unsatisfactory Result of Oliver's Adventure; and a Conversation of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie and Rose 336 Chapter 36 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 340 Chapter 37 In Which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases 352 Chapter 38 Containing an Account of What Passed Between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Monks, at Their Nocturnal Interview 364 Chapter 39 Introduces Some Respectable Characters with Whom the Reader Is Already Acquainted, and Shows How Monks and the Jew Laid Their Worthy Heads Together 381 Chapter 40 A Strange Interview, Which Is a Sequel to the Last Chamber 389 Chapter 41 Containing Fresh Discoveries, and Showing That Suprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone 400 Chapter 42 An Old Acquaintance of Oliver's, Exhibiting Decided Marks of Genius, Becomes a Public Character in the Metropolis 412 Chapter 43 Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got into Trouble 424 Chapter 44 The Time Arrives, for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails 432 Chapter 45 Noah Claypole Is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission 436 Chapter 46 The Appointment Kept 447 Chapter 47 Fatal Consequences 455 Chapter 48 The Flight of Sikes 466 Chapter 49 Monks and Mr. Brownlow at Length Meet. Their Conversation, and the Intelligence That Interrupts It 477 Chapter 50 The Pursuit and Escape 490 Chapter 51 Affording an Explanation of More Mysteries than One, and Comprehending a Proposal of Marriage with No Word of Settlement or Pin-money 504 Chapter 52 The Jew's Last Night Alive 514 Chapter 53 And Last