THE ADVENTURES OF OLIVER TWIST; OR, The Parish Boy's Progress. BY CHARLES DICKENS. WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS ON STEEL, BY A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY BRADBURY & EVANS, WHITEFRIARS. MDCCCXLVI. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I.-Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was Born; and of the Cir- 1 II.-Treats of Oliver Twist's Growth, Education, and Board 3 III.-Relates how Oliver Twist was very near getting a Place, which 10 IV.-Oliver, being offered another Place, makes his first entry into Public Life 16 V.-Oliver mingles with new Associates. Going to a Funeral for the first VII.-Oliver continues refractory 333 VIII.-Oliver walks to London. He encounters on the road, a strange 37 IX.-Containing further Particulars concerning the pleasant old Gentleman, 44 X.-Oliver becomes better acquainted with the Characters of his new XI.—Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and furnishes a slight XII.-In which Oliver is taken better care of, than he ever was before. XIII. Some new Acquaintances are introduced to the intelligent Reader; |