THE

ADVENTURES

OF

OLIVER TWIST;

OR,

The Parish Boy's Progress.

BY

CHARLES DICKENS.

WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS ON STEEL, BY
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.

A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR,

BY BRADBURY & EVANS, WHITEFRIARS.

MDCCCXLVI.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I.-Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was Born; and of the Cir-
cumstances attending his Birth

II.-Treats of Oliver Twist's Growth, Education, and Board

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III.-Relates how Oliver Twist was very near getting a Place, which
would not have been a Sinecure

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IV.-Oliver, being offered another Place, makes his first entry into Public
Life

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V.—Oliver mingles with new Associates. Going to a Funeral for the first
time, he forms an unfavourable Notion of his Master's Business
VI.-Oliver, being goaded by the Taunts of Noah, rouses into Action, and
rather astonishes him

VII.-Oliver continues refractory

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VIII.-Oliver walks to London. He encounters on the road, a strange
sort of young Gentleman

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IX.-Containing further Particulars concerning the pleasant old Gentleman,
and his hopeful Pupils

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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

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XI.-Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and furnishes a slight
specimen of his mode of administering Justice

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

XIII. Some new Acquaintances are introduced to the intelligent Reader ;
connected with whom, various pleasant Matters are related,
appertaining to this History

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